
HISTORY 





UNITED 
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A HISTORY OF 

THE UNITED STATES 

FOR SCHOOLS 



BY 



WILBUR F. GORDY 



FORMERLY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.; AUTHOR OF "ELEMENTARY HISTORV 

OF THE UNITED STATES," "AMERICAN LEADERS AND HEROES," AMERICAN BEGINNINGS IN 

EUROPE," "STORIES OF AMERICAN EXPLORERS," "COLONIAL DAVS" '"STORIES 

OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY," "STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY" 



WITH MANY I L LUSTRA TIONS AXD MAPS 



XEIV EDITION 



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PREFACE 

The function of both the writer and the teacher of his- 
tory is to explain the meaning of human Hfe as revealed in 
the records of the past. In the case of both the historian 
and the teacher much depends upon a nice discrimination 
in choosing typical facts, for their nature rather than their 
number should be the guiding principle. This is especially 
true in the teaching of history in grammar grades, where 
the purpose is not so much to acquire a considerable body 
of knowledge as to develop in the pupil an interest in 
history and a taste for historical reading. In this book 
care has been taken not only to select typical events but so 
to group them that their full value may be appreciated as 
causes or as results. 

The reader is invited to examine briefly the plan of the 
book. After a short chapter on early discoveries follows an 
account of the struggle, on the part of the Spaniards, the 
English, the Dutch, and the French, for control in the New 
World. In accordance with the general purpose of select- 
ing significant events, many romantic and interesting adven- 
tures have been omitted from the body of the text, in order 
to give more space to topics of greater importance. But 
enough has been told to explain the nature of the explora- 
tions, their objects, and methods, and the reasons for failure 
or success in planting colonies. 

In the treatment of the English colonies, only typical 



viii PREFACE 

ones are chosen and they are divided in three groups. Vir- 
ginia and Maryland represent the Southern group; Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut, the New England group; and 
New York and Pennsylvania, the Middle group. 

A few things should be noted in connection with the 
treatment of the colonies. In the first place, the history of 
each group is brought down to 1689, a turning-point in 
American history. The pupil can thus study separately the 
three parallel streams of colonial history, without the inevi- 
table and almost inextricable confusion which must attend 
a strictly chronological treatment of the thirteen colonies, 
whether taken up singly or all together. In the second 
place, emphasis is laid upon what is important; the selec- 
tion of typical colonies and of typical events in the life of 
these colonies must, of course, give more space for intelli- 
gent and interesting treatment of illustrative facts. In the 
third place, certain definite characteristics of the people in 
any one of the groups can, by comparison and contrast, be 
distinctly brought out by this method of study. 

Of course there is an elimination of some matter gener- 
ally used in text-books. At the ends of chapters, however, 
may be found, in the " Notes," reference to the colonies not 
treated fully in the body of the text. The subject-matter of 
these "Notes" has been carefully selected and will, it is 
believed, supply nearly all that is needed in schools where the 
conditions require a special handhngof the colony in question. 

Up to 1689 there was little of the spirit of union among 
the colonies. To a great extent each went its own way. 
But after 1689, three sets of influences — Indian wars, troub- 
les with the French, and difficulties with the royal and the 
proprietary governors — gradually brought the colonies into 
closer sympathy and prepared them for union. To make 
clear the working of these three sets of historic forces, the 



PREFACE IX 

topics introducing them are given in the following order: 
*' Life among the Indians " and " Indian Wars "; " French 
Explorations" and the "Last French War"; and "Life 
among the Colonies " and " Growth toward Union." 

Special attention is called to the facts selected to explain 
the real meaning of the intercolonial struggle between the 
English and the French. Of the four Intercolonial Wars, 
the only one worthy of study in grammar schools is the Last 
French War. By omitting the other three, space is gained 
for a more complete discussion of the one that had altogether 
the most important bearing upon American history. If the 
pupil thoroughly studies this war he will know the meaning 
of the struggle between England and France for control in 
America. 

In the Revolution, as in all other wars, causes and results 
are emphasized rather than campaigns and battles ; military 
details are avoided, only a few significant battles being 
given to enable the pupil to understand the character of 
the fighting. The pertinent question here as elsewhere is: 
Does the fact serve to give the pupil clear ideas of the past 
as an interpreter of the present? In applying this test in 
the study of history, we soon find ourselves passing lightly 
over or omitting altogether much that has found a con- 
spicuous place in class-room work. 

In the Constitutional period, the traditional grouping of 
topics according to Presidential administrations has been 
abandoned in the belief that the sequence of events can be 
more clearly understood by a logical grouping. But those 
who prefer to use the traditional method can easily adapt it 
to this book. Numerous references are made, in the notes 
" To the Pupil," to the Presidents and their terms of office, 
and a carefully prepared table containing a list of the Presi- 
dents and important facts about them may be found in the 



X PREFACE 

Appendix. Moreover, portraits of all the Presidents and 
sketches of their lives have been given an appropriate place. 

Inasmuch as the colonization of the West has played so 
large a part in our history, no apology need be made for the 
prominence given to Western settlement, Western life, the 
difficult problems of connecting the East and the West, the 
effect of Western expansion upon the slavery controversy 
and immigration, the influence of the prairies and the 
Pacific railroads, and so on. 
\ In discussing the development of the West, the intimate 
relation existing between man and the physical conditions 
that surround him is made evident. Indeed, throughout 
the book the marked influence of geography upon history 
has been distinctly recognized. 

But, however important physical conditions may be, 
history concerns itself more largely with moral than with 
material life. Accordingly, the personal actor has been 
given emphasis. In portraits, autographs, biographical 
sketches, and in the conspicuous mention made of represen- 
tative men, the moral elernent has been kept uppermost. 
For man dominating his physical and social surroundings is 
the central fact of history. 

The very cordial reception given to the previous editions 
of this book has been most gratifying. In this new edition* 
the history has been brought down to date. Although 
many changes in the text have not been found necessary, 
yet, whenever in the interests of a more useful book such 
changes h^^ve seemed advisable they have been unhesitat- 
ingly made. The excellence of the maps and pictures in 
the editions already published has won hearty commenda- 
tion for their helpfulness in illuminating and supplementing 
the text. 

In closing, the author wishes to express his deep obliga- 



PREFACE xi 

tion to Dr. Thomas M. Balliet, Dean of the New York 
University of Pedagogy, and to Professor WilHam E. Mead, 
of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., for their many 
invaluable suggestions; also to Miss Elizabeth M. Worth- 
ington, of Hartford, Conn., for her great care in reading 
the proof. 

Wilbur F. Gordy. 



CONTENTS 



DISCOVERY OF AMKRICA 

CiMAPTHR 

1. Discovery of America, .... 



PACK 
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EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION 



II. Spain in the New World 

HI. PLngland in the New World 

IV. The English in Virginia and Maryland (1607-1 

V. The Pilgrims and Puritans in Massachusetts and 

Connecticut (1620-1689), 

VI. The Dutch in New York and the Quakers in 

Pennsylvania (1609-1689) 
VII. Life Among the Indians, 
VIII. Early Indian Wars, 
IX. French Explorations, . 
X. The Last French War, 
XI. Life in the Colonies at uhe Close of the Fk 

and Indian Wars, . . , . 
XII. Growth toward Union in the Colonies, 



13 

20 



63 

75 
84 
87 
93 



118 



THE REVOLUTION, THE CONFEDERATION, AND THE 
FEDERAL UNION 

XIII. The Revolution 125 

XIV. The Breakdown of the Confederation and the 

Formation of the Constitution (1781-1789), . 185 
XV. The New SiRUciOLE for Political Independence 
AND the Growth of National Feeling (1789- 

1829 194. 

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CH>'?TER PAGE 

XVI. Jacksonian Democracy and the West (1829-1841), . 250 

XVII. The Slavery Question (1841-1859), .... 267 

XVIII. Secession and the Civil War (1860-1865), . . . 298 



RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW UNION 

XIX. Reconstruction Days (i 865-1 871), .... 356 

XX. The New South (1877- ) 365 

XXI. The New West (1865- ) 372 

XXII. The New Union (1865) 382 

XXIII. The United States Now a World Power, . . 410 

XXI\'. Some Industrial, Economic, Social, and Political 

Conditions and Problems of the Present, . 470 

Topical Reviews in American History, 491 



APPENDICES 

A. The Declaration of Independence, 

B. A Chart on the Constitution, . 
Constitution of the United States, 

C. Table of States and Territories, 

D. Presidents of the United States, 

INDEX, 



501 
505 
506 

521 
523 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



after 



his 



George Washington, . 

A Ship of the Norsemen, 

Christopher Columbus, 

The A'iiia, .... 

The Finta, .... 

The Santa Maria, 

Sebastian Cabot, 

Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella 

New World 

Americus Vespucius, ..... 

Cortez, ....... 

Old Spanish Mission, New Mexico, Built 1604, 
Spanish Gateway, St. Augustine, Florida, . 
Balboa, ....... 

Fernando de .Soto, ..... 

Queen Elizabeth, ..... 

Sir Walter Raleigh and Autograph, 

The Destruction of the Spanish Armada, 

Philippe II., King of Spain, 1527-1598, 

.\n Indian Village at Roanoke, 

I'-inglish Explorers Bartering with Indians for Lan 

Queen Elizabeth's Signature, 

Signature of James I., 

Ruins of Old Church at Jamestow 

Captain John Smith, . 

Tobacco-plant, 

A Wild Dash for Life, 

George Calvert (Lord Baltimore), 

A Maryland Shilling, . 

A Puritan, .... 

Oliver Cromwell, 

The Mayjlcnver, . 

A Chest which came over in the 

Myles Standish, . 

Pilgrim Types, . , 

Myles Standish's Bill of Expenses after Ins Visit to the Indians, 



MayJlo7ve>\ 



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facing page 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Hooker's Emigration to Connecticut, . 

Gov. John Winthrop, ... .... 

First Church at Salem, ..... 

Facsimile of Opening Lines of the Massachusetts Charter, 

Sir Edmund Andros, ....-• 

The Charter Oak, 

A Dutch Officer of the Seventeenth Century, 

A Group of Seventeenth Century Dutchmen, 

The Earliest Picture of New Amsterdam, . 

Henry Hudson's Half Moon on the Hudson, 

An Early Dutch Man of War, .... 

William Penn, .....•• 

Penn's Treaty with the Indians 

An Indian Camp, ...... 

W'ampum received by Penn from the Indians, 

Indian Whip (Quirt), \Var-Club,.and Hunting- Arrow 

Indian Snow-shoes and Pappoose-case, 

Totem of the Five Nations, 

Totem of the Illinois, . 

Totem of the Sioux, . 

Toteni of the Ilurons, 

Carved Pipes from an Indian Mound, 

Big Elephant Mound, 

Indians Carrying Canoes over a Portage, 

French Soldiers of the Time of the French Exploration 
Samuel Champlain, 

La Salle Claiming for Prance all the Territory tlirou 
sippi and its Tributaries Flowed, 

Robert Cavalier De La Salic 

French Soldiers and Oflficers of the Time of the I'renc 

Quebec <n 1730 

General Brdddock's Troops in an Indian Ambuscade, 
Maj.-Gen. James Wolfe, ..... 
Marquis de Montcalm, . . . . • 

Puritans Going to Churc'i, . . . • ■ 

A Wanton Gospeller 

The Pillory 

Colonial Relics, ....••■ 
Early New Amsterdam, Showing Costumes, .\muse 

ture, ...••••• 
Old Spinning-wheel, ...••• 
Title-page of " Poor Richard's Almanac," . 
John Hancock House, Boston, Mass., 
Tames Otis, . .... 



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117 
120 
126 
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A Royal Stamp 128 

Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., ......... 129 

Old State House, Boston, Mass., . . . . . . . . i-^o 

Patrick Henry, ............ 131 

The "Boston Massacre," .......... 133 

Old South Church, Boston, . . . . . . . . . .135 

St. John's Church, Richmond, Va., ........ 137 

The Fight on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775, . . facing page 138 

Old North Church, Boston, Mass., ........ 140 

The Retreat from Concord, ....... facing page 140 

The Battle of Bunker Hill, ....... facing page 142 

The Washington Elm at Cambridge, ........ 144 

The Craigie House, Washington's Headquarters at Cambridge (afterward the 

residence of Longfellow), ......... 146 

Samuel Adams, ......... ... 149 

Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. Chestnut Street Front, . . .150 

Signing the Declaration of Independence, .... facing page 150 

The Jumel Mansion, New York City, Washington's Headquarters, . .153 

John Burgoyne, . . . . . . . . . . . -159 

Lafayette, ............. i6o- 

Benjamin Franklin, ........... 162 

The Attack on the Chew House, Germantown, . . . facing page 16^ 

A Revolutionary Gun, ... ...... 168 

A Revolutionary Flint-lock Pistol, ........ 168 

Clark on the way to Kaskaskia, .... .... 170 

John Paul Jones, . . . . . . . . . . .172 

The Bon/iomme Jvic/iard and the Serapis, . . . . . . .173 

The Escape of Benedict Arnold, . . . . . . . . .178 

Nathaniel Greene, ........... 180 

Washington Firing the First Gun at the Siege of Vorktown, f^<^'"g pcg^ 180 

Nelson House, Yorktown, Ya., ......... 182 

Three Shilling Massachusetts Bill of 1 741, 186 

Celebrating in New York the Adoption of the Constitution, .... 189 
Washington's Mansion — South and West Fronts — Mt. Vernon, Va. , . . ig6 

Washington's Bedroom, Mt. Vernon, Va., . . . . ■. . . 197 

Servants' Quarters, Mt. Vernon, Va., ........ 198 

A Mail Carrier, 199 

A Fast Mail — 1876 199 

A Twentieth Century Flyer, ......... I99 

John Jay, ............. 200 

How Washington Signed his Name at Various Ages, . .... 201 

Alexander Hamilton, ........... 202 

A Primitive Cotton-gin, .......... 204 

Whitney's First Cotton-gin, 205 



xvi:i LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

John Adams, 209 

School-house where Thomas Jefferson Received his Early Education, . .214 

MonticcUo, the Home of JclTcrson, 215 

Thomas Jefferson, 216 

A F^ck-horse, 217 

A Hand Corn-mill, 217 

A Sweep-mill, 218 

Breaking Flax, 21S 

An Ohio River Flatboat, 219 

Early Settlers Crossing the Plains, facing page 220 

Lewis's First Glimpse of the Rockies, facing page 222 

James Madison, 228 

American Seamen Boarding the Frolic, facing page 232 

Old State House, where the Hartford Convention Met, .... 237 

James Monroe, ............ 241 

Henry Clay, "The Great Peacemaker," 244 

John Quincy Adams, the Anti-slavery Statesman, 246 

Andrew Jackson, 251 

John C. Calhoun, the Defender of Slavery and State Rights, . . . 253 

Daniel Webster, 255 

Robert Y. Hayne, 256 

The Boston & Worcester Railroad in 1S35, 258 

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1S30-35, 258 

A Railway Coach of 1830, 261 

Martin Van Buren, 262 

William Henry Harrison, 268 

John Tyler, 269 

Facsimile of the Heading of Garrison's Paper, 272 

James K. Polk, . . . . . ". 275 

The Storming of Chapul tepee, . 2^6 

Sutter's Mill, where Gold was first found in California, .... 279 

Zachary Taylor, 2S0 

Modes of travel in the West. .\n Old Stage-coach and Prairie Schooner, . 2S2 

Millard Fillmore, 283 

Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 2S4 

Franklin Pierce, 2S6 

Charles Sumner, 2S9 

Old Plantation Days, 292 

James Buchanan, 294 

Engine House, Harper's Ferry, 296 

Abraham Lincoln, 300 

Lincoln's Birthplace, 3or 

Jefferson Davis, 303 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Interior of Fort Sumter after the Bombardment in 1863, 

Long Bridge Across tlie Potomac at Washington, D. C 

George B. McClellan, 

Deck of the Monitor, . 

The Battle between the J/(7«/V(7r and the il/<f;-r/w(7r, . . facing page 

Parapet at Fortress Monroe, 

Grant's " Unconditional Surrender " Letter, 

A Mortar Battery in front of Yorktown, 

A Federal Battery in the Field, . 

Robert E Lee, ...... 

Fugitive Negroes Fording the Rappahannock, 

Thomas J. (" Stonewall ") Jackson, 

George G. Meade, ..... 

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation 
A Federal Cavalry Camp — Winter Quarters 
George H. Thomas, " the Rock of Chickamauga," 
General Grant and Staff on Point Lookout, 1863, 
General U. S. Grant, .... 

Building a Pontoon Bridge, 

Philip H. Sheridan, .... 

Destroying a Railroad at Atlanta, Ga., 
William T. Sherman, .... 

David Glasgow Farragut, . 

Farragut in Mobile Bay, facing fage 

A Council of War at Massaponax Church, 

The Surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox, . . . facing pat^ 

A Sanitary Commission Lodge near Alexandria, \' 

Andrew Johnson, 

A Ku-klux "Warning'' in Mississipp 

Rutherford B. Hayes, 

Eads Bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, 

A Cotton Press Yard, New Orleans, 

A Sugar Plantation, 

State Buildings, Atlanta, Ga. , 

A Cripple Creek Mine, 

A Reaper, .... 

A Steam-Driven Gang-Plow, 

A Thresher, 

Indian Warfare in the West, /ac/;?^ page 

Artesian Well System, Riverside, Gal. An .Aerator in fore^ 

An Irrigated .Orange Grove, Riverside, Cal, 

A Midship View of the Great Eastern, showing one of the Paddle Wheels 

and the Launching Gear, 
Samuel F. B. Morse's Original Model of the Telegraph Instrument, 



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



C, 



on Bridges 



in the World, 



facing page 



R. F. T. Allen's Original Model of the Typewriter, ..... 
Alexander Graham Bell's Original Model of the Telephone Receiver and 

Transmitter, ..... 

Elias Howe's Original Model of the Sewing Machine, 
Opening Day at the Philadelphia Centennial, 1876, 
Samuel J. Tilden, ..... 
James A. Garfield, .... 

Supreme Court Room, Capitol, Washington, D 
Chester \. Arthur, .... 

Grover Cleveland, ..... 
Brooklyn Bridge. One of the Largest Suspensi 
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, 
Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C, 
Hall of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C, 
James G. Blaine, ..... 
The New Battleship Maine, . 
Benjamin Harrison, ..... 
At the World's Fair, .... 
William McKinley, .... 

The Inauguration of William McKinley, . 
The Wreck of Cervera's Flagship Colon, . 

W. S. Schley, 

George Dewey, ..... 

Shipping and Docks, Pasig River, Manila, 

United States Troops Landing at Baiquiri, Cuba, 

The Palace at Santiago on which the American Flag was 

American Troops Took Possession, 
Theodore Roosevelt, .... 
William T. Sampson, .... 

Nelson A. Miles, 

Native Tagalo Children, Malabon, . 

Wireless Telegraph Station at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, 

The Atlantic Fleet Starting on its V'oyagc .\round the World, Dec, 1907, 

Peace Palace, The Hague, .... 

Natural Forest Regions of the United States 

William H. Taft, 

The New Department of State Building,. 
Woodrow Wilson, ...... 

American Troops Marching Through Vera Cruz. 

President Wilson Addressing Congress, .April 2, u;i 

American Troops .Arriving in France, 

Children Promoting the Sale of "Liberty Loans," 

The Secretary of War and General Pershing Reviewing American Troopt 

in France, .....■••••" 



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Raised when th 



464 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Launching a Ship and Immediately Laying the Keel of a New Vessel in 

the Same Dock, .......... 

General Pershing's Veterans Direct from the Trenches in France Arrive in 

New York City, . 
The Round-Up, . 
A Textile Mill, 
Anthracite Coal Mine, . 
Goods Awaiting Exportation, 
Transportation in a Large City, Showing Eleva 

Subway, ..... 
A Crowded Street in a Tenement District, 
New Steel Tower Bridge Across the East River 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, . 
John Greenleaf Whittier, 
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 

and Lagoons, with the Palace of Educat 
The Capitol, Washington, D. C, 



ted Road, Surface Line, and 



New York, 



1904. One of the Bridges 
on, .... 



466 

468 
470 
471 
473 
476 

478 
480 
481 
483 
483 

484 
485 



LIST OF MAPS 

PAGS 

The World as Known in t'.ie Time of Columbus, 7 

English and Spanish Explorers in America, ...... lo 

Routes of Narvaez, De Soto, and Ponce de Eeon, . . . . .17 

The United States as it was in 1650, .... between pages 28 and 29 

Plymouth and London Grants, 1606, .... . . 29 

England and Holland, .......... 45 

New England, ............ 53 

Province Ruled over by Sir Edmund Andros, 1O8S, . . . . -59 

Colonies between Potomac and Hudson Rivers, . . . . . . "JX 

Routes of Champlain, Marquette, and La Salle — also English Possessions, 

French and Spanish Claims, .... behveen pages 88 and 89 

Quebec and Vicinity, . . . . . . . . . . .100 

Results of the French and Indian War, ....... 107 

Boston and Vicinity, ........... 143 

New York and Vicinity, .......... 151 

Washington's Retreat across New Jersey, . . . . . . • '55 

Burgoyne's Invasion and Howe's Capture of Philadelphia, .... 161 

War in the South and the Northwest Territory, ...... 171 

Scene of Arnold's Treason, . . . . . . . . .177 

North America at the Close of the Revolution, . belTi'een pages 1S2 and 183 

Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Route, . . . . .221 

War of 1812, ....... between pages 2T,^ a.n(\ 2^$ 

Oregon Country, ........... 270 

Area in Dispute at Time of Mexican War facing page 274 

The Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, etc., . . . facing page 280 

Acquisition of Territory, ....... facing page 294 

The First and Second Secession Areas, . . bet-ween pages 304 and 305 

Campaigns in the West, 1862-63, ........ 318 

Virginia Campaigns and McClellan's Route, ...... 320 

The Battle of Gettysburg, 328 

Vicksburg and Vicinity, .......... 330 

Chattanooga and Vicinity, ........ . . 335 

Sherman's March to the Sea, ......... 342 

Cuba, 414 

Porto Rico, ............ 419 

The United States in 1910 between pages 420 and 421 

Philippine Islands ........... 42a 

Trade Routes with Distances by Existing Lines and by the Panama 

Canal, 444, 445 

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A TOPICAL OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY* 



DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 
CHAPTER I 

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 

1. EUROPEAN TRADE WITH ASIA IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 

a. Silks, spices, and precious stones brought by ships and caravans 

to cities of Southern Europe. 
6. Genoa and Venice made rich by this trade. 

c. Turks capture Constantinople (1453), making Mediterranean Sea 
unsafe for European vessels. 

d. Europe looks for safer route to India. 

2. AIDS TO DISCOVERY. 

a. Gunpow^der made easier the conquest of uncivilized peoples. 

b. Mariner's compass encovuraged sailors to venture far out into the 
sea. 

c. The printing press spread abroad the knowledge of new-foimd 
lands. 

3. PORTUGAL LEADS IN DISCOVERING AN EASTERN ROUTE. 

a. Portugal then a world power. 

b. Portuguese sailors explored western coast of Africa and found 

Cape of Good Hope (1487). Discovered new route to India. 

4. PLANS OF COLUMBUS. 

a. Decided eastern coast of Asia could be reached by sailing west- 

ward across the Atlantic. 

b. Difficulty in convincing others and acquiring enough money to 
equip a fleet. 

5. FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS (1492). 

a. Queen Isabella of Spain aids Columbus. 

b. The three vessels. 

c. Columbus sets sail (August 3, 1492). 

d. The sailors in despair. 

•. Land discovered (October 12, 1492). 

• The topics in heavy type refer to related European history, 
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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

6. OTHER VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS. 

a. Sailors now anxious to make voyage. 

b. Three other voyages made, but no spices, gold, etc., found. 

c. Last days of Columbus. 

7. JOHN CABOT DISCOVERS THE MAINLAND OF NORTH 

AMERICA (1497). 

a. Spain and Portugal apportion newly discovered lands. 

b. England sends John Cabot to find new westward route to India. 

c. He discovers the mainland of North America. 

8. AMERICUS VESPUCIUS AND THE NAMING OF AMERICA. 

9. MAGELLAN PROVES AMERICA TO BE A CONTINENT. 

EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION 
CHAPTER II 

SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD 

ID. PRECIOUS METALS THE MAIN OBJECT OF THE SPANIARDS. 

11. DE LEON DISCOVERS FLORIDA (1513). 

12. DE SOTO EXPLORES FLORIDA AND DISCOVERS THE MIS- 

SISSIPPI. 

13 THE SPANIARDS DRIVE THE HUGUENOTS OUT OF FLORIDA. 

a. Huguenot settlements. 

b. Why Spain laid claim to Florida. 

c. The Spaniards destroy the Huguenot settlement in Florida. 

14 TWO ADVANTAGES OF SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD. 

15. REASONS FOR SPANISH FAILURE. 

NOTES 
Balboa Discovers the Pacific (1513). 
Cortez Conquers Mexico (1519-1521). 
Navarez Explores Florida (1528). 
Pizarro Conquers Peru (1531-1533). 

CHAPTER III 

ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 

-j6, RELATIONS BETWEEN SPAIN AND ENGLAND. 

a. Spain the leading naval power in Europe. 

b. Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588). 



OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

±7. ENGLISH SEA-ROVERS AND EXPLORERS. 
a. Drake and Hawkins. 

18. SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S ATTEMPT TO COLONIZE AMERICA 

(1584-1587)- 

a. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's scheme. 

b. Raleigh sends an exploring party to Virginia. 

c. Raleigh's first colony fails. 

d. Raleigh's second colony fails. 

e. Raleigh's lost colony. 

19. ENGLAND'S NEED OF AMERICA. 

a. Large numbers of men thrown out of work in England* 

NOTES 
Sir Francis Drake (1577). 
Bartholomew Gosnold (1602). 



CHAPTER IV 

THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND (1607-1689) 

20. LONDON AND PLYMOUTH COLONIES. 
a. The charter and common storehouse. 

121. SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN (1607). 
a. The settlers and their sufferings. 

22. THE SERVICES OF SMITH. 

23. SMITH RETURNS TO ENGLAND; THE SUFFERING COL- 

ONISTS (1609-1610). 
a. "The starving time." 

24. DALE'S GREAT REFORM: HE ESTABLISHES INDIVIDUAL 

OWNERSHIP OF LAND AND GOODS. 

a. Dale's severe measures. 

b. Dale abolishes the system of the common storehouse. 

25. TOBACCO THE MAIN SOURCE OF WEALTH. 

26. THE SECOND GREAT REFORM: SELF GOVERNMENT (1619). 

a. The new government. 

27. GREAT NEED OF LABOR; LABOR SUPPLY. 

a. White servants sent to Virginia. 

b. The first cargo of negro slaves (1619). 

s8. TOBACCO ESTABLISHES RURAL LIFE. 



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29. BERKELEY AND THE PEOPLE. 

30. BACON LEADS AN UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE (1676). 

a. The Navigation Laws. 

b. Tyranny of Berkeley. 

c. Bacon's Rebellion. 

31. LORD BALTIMORE AND THE CATHOLICS SETTLE MARYLAND 

(1634)- 

32. LORD BALTIMORE'S PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. 

a. The liberal charter. 

b. A remarkable provision of the charter. 

SZ- DISPUTES ABOUT BOUNDARIES AND RELIGION. 

34. PROSPERITY OF THE PEOPLE. 

a. Rural life of the people. 

NOTES 
North and South Carolina (1663-1729). 
Georgia (1733)- 

CHAPTER V ' 

THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT 

{1620-168Q) 

35. ENGLAND UNDER THE STUARTS (1603-1649 and 1660-1688). 

a. The tyrannical Stuarts. 

6. No taxation without representation. 

c. James II driven from England. 

d. The Church of England and the Puritans. 

e. The Separatists. 

36. PILGRIMS MIGRATE TO AMERICA (1620). 

a. The Pilgrims escape to Holland. 

b. Their aims and character. 

37. VOYAGE AND FIRST WINTER. 

38. THE COVENANT, DEMOCRACY, AND THE CHURCH. 

a. Pilgrim leaders. 

39. RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS. 

40. THE PURITANS AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY 

(1628-1630). 

a. Some Puritan leaders form a trading company. 

b. The Puritans secure a liberal charter. 

c. The Puritan settlements in 1630. 

41. THE NEW ENGLAND TOWNSHIP. 

a. The meeting-house and the village. 



OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

42. CHURCH AND STATE. 

a. Puritans allow none but church members to vote. 

43. MASSACHUSETTS GETS CONTROL OF THE CONNECTICUT 

VALLEY (1633-1636). 

a. The Dutch at Hartford. 

44. MASSACHUSETTS SETTLE THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY 

(1635-1636). 

a. Settlement at Hartford. 

45. THOMAS HOOKER AND DEMOCRACY. 

46. THE CONNECTICUT CONSTITUTION (1639). 

o. Government by the people. 

b. New Haven colony. 

c. The Connecticut charter. 

47. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN MASSACHUSETTS LEADS TO 

THE SETTLEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND (1636). 

a. Roger Williams and his views. 

b. Roger Williams driven out of Massachusetts. 

c. Anne Hutchinson. 

48. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY (1643). 

a. Enemies of the New England Colonies. 

49. THE QUAKERS IN NEW ENGLAND. 

o. Punishment of the Quakers. 

b. Peculiar ideas of the Quakers. 

c. Why the Puritans persecuted the Quakers. 

50. TROUBLE WITH MASSACHUSETTS AND LOSS OF THE MAS- 

SACHUSETTS CHARTER (1684). 

a. Independent attitude of Massachusetts. 

b. Enemies of Massachusetts. 

c. Complaints against Massachusetts. 

51. ANDROS, THE STUART GOVERNOR IN NEW ENGLAND (1686- 

1689). 

a. Tyranny of Andros in Massachusetts. 

b. Andros fails to secure the Connecticut charter. 

c. Andros sent back to England. 

52. INDUSTRIES AND TRADE IN NEW ENGLAND. 

a. Comparison between soil and climate in New England and in 
Virginia. 

NOTE 
New Hampshire (1623). 



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CHAPTER VI 

THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK AND THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA fi6oo-i68p) 

53. HENRY HUDSON SEEKS THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1609). 

a. Hudson discovers the Hudson River. 

b. He wins the good-will of the Indians for the Dutch. 

54. DUTCH CLAIMS TO NEW NETHERLAND. 

a. Dutch settlements and forts (1623). 

55. THE PATROONS. 

a. Powers and duties of the patroons. 

56. THE DUTCH WIN THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE IROQUOIS IN 

DIANS AND THUS SECURE AN EXTENSIVE FUR TRADE. 
a. Results of the friendship of the Iroquois for the Dutch. 

57. NEW NETHERLAND UNDER DUTCH GOVERNORS (1623- 

1664). 

a. The government. 

b. The four governors. 

c. The mixed population. 

58. NEW NETHERLAND BECOMES NEW YORK (1664). 

a. Why England wished to get control of New Netherland. 

b. The Dutch yield to the English. 

c. Why the Dutch failed. 

59. NEW YORK UNDER ENGLISH GOVERNORS. 

a. Leisler leads an uprising of the people against Andros. 

60. THE QUAKERS IN ENGLANT>. 

61. WILLIAM PENN AND THE QUAKERS SETTLE PENN- 

SYLVANIA (1681). 

a. Penn becomes proprietor of Pennsylvania. 

62. THE QUAKERS LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE INDIANS. 

63. PENN'S LIBERAL GOVERNMENT. 

64. GROWTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

a. Mixed character of the population. 

NOTES 
New Jersey (1618). 
Delaware (1638). 



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CHAPTER VII 

LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 

6s to 76. (THIS CHAPTER SHOULD NOT BE ASSIGNED FOR 
MEMORIZING, BUT IT MAY BE READ AND DISCUSSED. THE 
SECTIONS HAVING THE MOST VALUE ARE 68, 69, AND 76.) 

CHAPTER VIII 
EARLY INDIAN WARS 

77. THE PEQUOT WAR. 

a. Leading causes of early Indian wars. 

b. Captain Mason's expedition against the Pequots. 

78. KING PHILIP'S WAR (1675-1676). 

a. King Philip's purpose. 

b. Results of King Philip's War. 

CHAPTER IX 
FRENCH EXPLORATIONS 

79. THE FRENCH DISCOVER AND EXPLORE THE ST. LAWRENCE. 

a. Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence (1534). 

6. Champlain makes the first permanent French settlement in 
Canada (1608). 

80. CHAMPLAIN AND THE IROQUOIS (1609). 

a. Champlain and Henry Hudson. 

b. Champlain makes the Iroquois enemies of the French. 

81. THE FRENCH REACH THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 

a. The three great water-ways. 

b. The Iroquois force the French to seek a long and difficult route. 

c. Important work of the Jesuit missionaries. 

82. LA SALLE PLANTS THE ARMS OF FRANCE AT THE MOUTH 

OF THE MISSISSIPPI (1682). 

a. La Salle sets out to explore the Mississippi. 

b. La Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi. 

83. ATTEMPT TO PLANT A COLONY AT THE MOUTH OF THE 

MISSISSIPPI. 

a. La Salle's two aims. 

b. What La Salle did. 

84. ON ACCOUNT OF LA SALLE'S EXPLORATION THE MISSIS- 

SIPPI VALLEY BECOMES A PART OF NEW FRANCE. 



OUTLINE or AMERICAN HISTORY 
CHAPTER X 

THE LAST FRENCH WAR 

8$. ENGLAND AND FRANCE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL IN AMERICA 
(1689-1763). 

a. Wars between England and France (1689- 1763). 

b. The Iroquois and the fur trade. 

c. The Intercolonial Wars. 

86. CAUSES OF THE LAST FRENCH WAR (1756-1763). 

a. Reasons why France and England claimed the Mississippi Valley. 

b. French forts and colonies. 

c. The Ohio Company. 

d. Washington's journey to the French forts. 

e. The fighting begins at Great JNIeadows. 

87. PLAN OF THE WAR. 

88. BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT (i755)- 

a. General Braddock. 

b. The ambush and the battle. 

c. Dismal failure of Braddock's expedition. 

89. REMOVAL OF THE ACADLANS. 

a. The Acadians take sides with the French. 

b. Their removal necessary. 

90. MONTCALM AND FRENCH SUCCESSES. 

a. Weak English generals. 

b. A gloomy outlook for England. 

pi. WILLIAM PITT AND ENGLISH SUCCESSES. 

p2. WOLFE AND THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC (i759)- 

a. General Wolfe. 

b. Quebec. 

c. The English climb the rocky heights. 

d. Wolfe's victory and death. 

93. THE TREATY OF PEACE (1763). 

a. The French driven out of North America. 

94. OTHER RESULTS OF THE WAR. 

a. The English colonies have a growing sense of power and inde- 
pendence. 

NOTE 
The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1763). 



OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

CHAPTER XI 
LIFE IN THE COLONIES AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS 

95. THE COLONIES IN GENERAL. 

a. The three groups of colonies. 

b. Population and large towns. 

THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP OF COLONIES 

96. OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE. 

a. The fisheries and the trade with the West India IslaadSo 

97. RELIGION AND CHURCH WORSHIP. 

a. Church attendance. 

b. The tithing man. 

98. THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT. 

99. EDUCATION. 

a. A system of public education. 

b. Harvard and Yale established. 

100. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 

a. The stocks and the pillory. 

loi. LIFE AND MANNERS. 

a. The old-time fireplace. 

b. Amusements. 

c. The Thanksgiving reunion. 

d. Weddings and funerals. 

THE SOUTHERN GROUP OF COLONIES 

102. OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE. 

a. The plantation and the planter. 

103. EDUCATION. 

a. Berkeley opposes free schools. 

b. The cavaliers and political leaders in Virginia. 

104. LIFE AND MANNERS. 

a. The mansion and the slave quarters. 

b. Manner of life of the planters. 

c. Christmas a festive occasion. 

THE MIDDLE GROUP OF COLONIES 

105. THE PEOPLE AND THEIR OCCUPATIONS. 

a. A mixed population in New York and Pennsylvania. 

b. Trade, agriculture, and manufacturing 

106. EDUCATION. 



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107. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 

108. LIFE AND MANNERS AMONG THE DUTCH. 

a. The Dutch house. 

b. Neat housekeeping. 

c. Funeral customs. 

d. Life among the patroons. 

e. Social life of the people. 

MODES OF TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION 

109. MODES OF TRAVEL. 

a. Travel on foot or horseback and by row-boals. 

b. The old stage-coach. 

c. Newspapers- 

CHAPTER XII 
GROWTH TOWARD UNION IN THE COLONIES 

110. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. 

a. The governor, the council, and the assembly. 

b. The three kinds of colonies. 

111. REPUBLICAN, PROPRIETARY, AND ROYAL COLONIES. 

a. Struggle between the royal and proprietary governors and the 
assemblies. 

b. No taxation without representation. 

c. Two results of the struggle. 

112. NEED OF UNION AMONG THE COLONIES. 

a. How the colonies were drawn together. 

b. Why the royal governors wished union. 

c. Weakness from lack of union. 

d. Why the colonies sought union. 

e. Franklin's Plan of Union. 
/. Reasons for its failure. 

THE REVOLUTION 
CHAPTER XIII 
THE REVOLUTION 

THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION 

113. ENGLAND TRIES TO CONTROL AMERICAN COMMERCE. 

a. The Navigation Laws and Acts of Trade. 

b. These laws injure the colonies in four ways. 



OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

114. THE SUGAR ACT AND SMUGGLING (1733). 

c. Advantages of trading with the French West Indies. 
b. Smuggling or financial ruin. 

115. JAMES OTIS DEFENDS NEW ENGLNAD MERCHANTS 
AGAINST WRITS OF ASSISTANCE. 

a. England issues Writs of Assistance. 

b. Otis declares that "Taxation without representation is tyranny." 

116. PARLIAMENT PASSES THE STAMP ACT (1765). 

a. The colonies submit to indirect taxation for three reasons. 

b. Why the English Government decided to levy a direct tax upon 

them. 

c. The colonies to be required to help maintain a standing army in 
America. 

d. The colonies slow in paying taxes during the Intercolonial Wars. 

117. HOW THE STAMP ACT WAS RECEIVED IN AMERICA. 

a. The Stamp Act. 

b. Its effects upon the colonists. 

118. PATRICK HENRY INTRODUCES THE VIRGINIA RESOLU- 
TIONS. 

a. Patrick Henry's famous resolutions. 

b. His speed. 

iig. THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS (1765). 

a. England's Mistake in passing the Stamp Act. 

t2o. REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT (i766)* 

a. Effect of non-importation upon English merchants. 

b. William Pitt opposes the Stamp Act. 

t2i. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IN AMERICA. 

a. The government in Kent and the government in Massachusetts. 

122. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IN ENGLAND. 

a. The English people not fairly represented in Parliament. 

123. GEORGE III. 

a. The views of George III. 

b. Why the king wished to tax the Americans. 

J 2*. THE NEW TAXES OF 1767. 

a. Purposes of the new taxes. 

b. Bitter opposition to the new taxes. 

c. Results. 

125. THE REDCOATS AND THE "BOSTON MASSACRE" (1770). 
a. The British troops withdrawn from Boston. 
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t26. COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE (1772-1774), 

a. Such Committees appointed in the Massachusetts towns. 

b. Such committees appointed for the various colonies. 

127. SAMUEL ADAMS AND THE "BOSTON TEA PARTY" (1773). 

a. George Third's trick in levying the tax on tea. 

b. Taxed tea sent to America. 

c. The " Boston Tea Party." 

128. BOSTON PUNISHED FOR ITS TEA PARTY. 

129. THE COLONIES UNITE IN SUPPORT OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

a. We must fight. 

b. The Continental Congress (1774). 

THE WAR BEGINS 
X3: BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD (April 19, 1775). 

a. The Provincial Congress and the "minute-men." 

b. English troops sent to Lexington and Concord. 

c. The troops in Concord. 

d. The fight at Concord Bridge. 

e. Retreat of the English to Boston. 

131. THE COLONIES UNITE FOR RESISTANCE. 

a. The second meeting of the Continental Congress (1775). 
h. Americans capture Ticonderoga and Crown Point. 

132. BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (June, 17, 1775). 

a. The Americans fortify Breed's Hill. 

b. General Howe attacks the Americans. 

c. Results of the battle of Bunker Hill. 

133. WASHINGTON DRIVES THE BRITISH OUT OF BOSTON. 

a. Washington's army. 

b. The Americans seize Dorchester Heights. 

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE MIDDLE 
STATES IN 1776 

134. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (July 4, 1776). 

0. Desire for independence grows rapidly. 

b. The colonies begin to realize need of united action. 

c. Adoption of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. 

135. THE BRITISH DIRECT THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MIDDLE 

STATES AND THE HUDSON RIVER, 
o. Reasons why the English wished to secure the Hudson River and 
the Middle States. 



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136. WASHINGTON'S PLAN OF DEFENDING NEW YORK; BATTLE 
OF LONG ISLAND (1776). 

a. Washington makes ready the defences of New York. 

b. He escapes from Long Island. 

137. WASHINGTON'S RETREAT FROM NEW YORK AND ACROSS 

NEW JERSEY. 

a. The British capture Forts Lee and Washington. 

b. Lee's disobedience and jealousy. 

c. Washington's army melting away. 

138. BATTLE OF TRENTON (1776). 

a. Dark outlook for the Americans. 

b. Washington's plans. 

c. A glorious victory at Trenton. 

d. Battle of Princeton. 

139. ROBERT MORRIS FURNISHES MONEY FOR THE ARMY. 

a. Great need of money for the soldiers. 

b. The noble task of Robert Morris. 

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE MIDDLE 
STATES IN 1777. 

140. THE BRITISH PLAN TO GET CONTROL OF THE HUDSON IN 

1777. 

141. BURGOYNE'S BRILLIANT BEGINNING. 
C42. SOME OF BURGOYNE'S DIFFICULTIES. 

143. BURGOYNE'S INDIAN ALLIES. 

144. BENNINGTON AND SUPPLIES. 

a. Burgoyne's need of supplies. 

b. Results of the British defeat at Bennington. 

145. FAILURE OF ST. LEGER. 

a. St. Leger's hurried retreat. 

146. WHY HOWE FAILED TO UNITE WITH BURGOYNE. 

a. The traitor Lee. 

b. Lee's advice to Howe. 

147. HOWE'S ADVANCE TOWARD PHILADELPHIA. 

a. Howe's vain attempt to bring on a battle. 

b. He sails to Elkton. 

148. BATTLE OF THE BRANDYWINE. 

o. Washington's skilful retreat. 

b. In delaying Howe, Washington made certain Burgoyne's cap^ 
ture. 

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149- BURGOYNE'S SURRENDER (1777), 
0. Burgoyne's situation desperate. 

150. BURGOYNE'S SURRENDER LEADS TO AID FROM FRANCE. 

a. Franklin's influence secures secret aid from France. 

b. Results of the American Treaty with France. 

151. THE SUFFERING AT VALLEY FORGE. 

a. The army strengthened by drill. 

152. THE CORMAY CABAL. 

a. Washington's enemies and their petty scheming. 

153. THE BRITISH EVACUATE PHILADELPHIA (1778). 

a. Battle of Monmouth. 

WARFARE ON THE BORDER AND ON THE SEA 

154. ENGLAND'S NUMEROUS WARS. 

155. WEAKNESS AND DIFFICULTIES OF THE AMERICANS. 

a. The Continental Congress has little power. 

b. The Continental currency. 

156. USE OF INDIANS BY THE ENGLISH. 

a. Importance of the struggle between the backwoodsmen and the 

Indians. 

b. What this struggle meant. 

157. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK MARCHES AG.\IXST THE BRITISH 
POSTS NORTH OF THE OHIO. 

a. Hamilton's plans. 

b. Clark's e.xpedition. 

158. CLARK SECURES CONTROL OF THE NORTHWEST (1778- 

1779)- 

a. Hamilton marches against Clark. 

b. Clark's expedition to Vincennes. 

c. Clark's heroic work. 

159. THE AMERICAN NAVY. 

a. France aids us with her fleets. 

160. AMERICAN PRIVATEERING. 

161. PAUL JONES AND THE AMERICAN NAVY. 

a. Paul Jones in command of a small squadron. 

b. Desperate fight between the Richardand the Serapis (1779). 

c. A great victory for the Americans. 



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WAR IN THE SOUTH AND THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS 

(1780-1781) 

162. REASONS WHY THE BRITISH TRIED TO CONQUER THE 
SOUTH. 

163. FIRST SUCCESSES OF THE BRITISH. 

a. Lincoln surrenders to Clinton at Charleston. 

b. Defeat of Gates at Camden. 

c. Gates in disgrace. 

164. BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN. 

165. PARTISAN WARFARE IN THE SOUTH. 

a. Clinton's unwise proclamation. 

b. Marion the Swamp Fox. 

166. ARNOLD IN PHILADELPHIA. 

a. Arnold heavily in debt. 

b. Arnold tried by court-martial. 

167. ARNOLD BECOMES A TRAITOR. 

168. ARNOLD FAILS, AND ANDRE IS HANGED AS A SPY (1780). 

a. The all-night interview. 

b. Andre's capture. 

c. Arnold's disgrace and death. 

169. GREENE AND CORNWALLIS. 

a. Greene's difficulties. 

b. Morgan's brilliant victory at Cowpens. 

170. GREENE'S RETREAT INTO VIRGINIA. 

c. Battle of Guilford Court House (1781). 

b. Cornwallis retires to Wilmington. 

c. Greene's skill as a general. 

171. CORNWALLIS GOES TO VIRGINIA. 

a. Cornwallis tries to entrap La Fayette. 

b. Cornwallis goes to Yorktown. 

172. CORNWALLIS, ENTRAPPED AT YORKTOWN, SURRENDERS 

(1781). _ 

a. Direct aid from France. 

b. Washington's brilliant movement. 

c. Cornwallis surrenders. 

173. THE END OF THE WAR AND THE TREATY OF PEACE (1783). 

a. Cornwallis's surrender ends the war. 

b. George Rogers Clark and the West. 

c. George the Third fails to carry out his plans. 

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CHAPTER XIV 

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CONFEDERATION AND THE FORMATION OF THE 
CONSTITUTION (1781-1789) 

174. CONGRESS DURING THE REVOLUTION. 

175. WEAKNESS OF CONGRESS UNDER THE CONFEDERATION. 

a. What Congress could and could not do. 

b. The States control commerce. 

176. ENGLAND AND AMERICAN COMMERCE. 

177. COMMERCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. 

a. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in trouble. 

b. Congress without power to regulate commerce. 

178. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE CONFEDERATION. 

179. SHAYS'S REBELLION (1786-1787). 

a. Distress of farmers in western Massachusetts. 

b. The rebellion put down by the State militia. 

180. CONFLICTING CLAIMS TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 

a. Claims made by four States. 

b. Maryland objects to these claims. 

c. Results of common ownership. 

181. THE ORDINANCE OF 1787. 

182. ■ EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 

a. The Confederation breaking down. 

b. The regulation of commerce. 

c. The conference at Annapolis. 

d. The Constitution ratified (1788). 

183. SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

a. The Federalists' and the Anti-Federalists. 

b. The Constitution ratified. 



CHAPTER XV 

THE NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE AND THE GROWTH OF 
NATIONAL FEELING (1789-1829J 

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS IN THE EARLY YE.\RS OF NEW GOVERN- 
MENT 

184. WASHINGTON THE FIRST PRESIDENT (1789). 

a. The choice of all the people. 

b. The inauguration. 

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185. THE NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE PEOPLE. 

a. Well-settled regions. 

b. Five principal commercial centres. 

186. MODES OF TRAVEL. 

a. Simple conditions of life. 

b. The old stage-coach. 

187. FERRIES. 

188. THE MAILS. 

a. The post-rider. 

b. Lack of national patriotism. 

:89. WASHINGTON'S FORMALITY. 

a. Aristocratic feeling of the Federalists. 

b. Washington at public receptions. 

100. THE NEW GOVERNMENT. 

a. The members of the cabinet. 

191. HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON THE TWO GREAT POLITICAL 

LEADERS. 

a. Shall the Federal or the State Government be supreme? 

192. HAMILTON'S PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING CREDIT. 

a. Hamilton's financial policy. 

b. He recommends the payment of the State debts by the United 
States. 

c. Jefferson's followers oppose the payment of the State debts. 

d. Washington made the national capital. 

193. A TARIFF LAID ON FOREIGN TRADE. 

a. The purpose of the tariff. 

b. A tax on spirituous liquors. 

194. THE WHISKEY REBELLION (1794). 

195. THE INVENTION OF THE COTTON-GIN (1793). 

a. Eli Whitney. 

b. Increase in the value of slave labor. 

c. Results of the invention upon slave labor. 

FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NEW GOV- 
ERNMENT 

196. A PERIOD OF TRIAL AND UNCERTAINTY FOR THE YOUNG 

REPUBLIC (1789-1815). 

a. Little national feeling in the United States. 

b. War between France and England. 

c. From 1789 to 181 5 the Americans struggle for indepandence of 

Europe. 



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197. INFLUENCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION UPON AMERICAN 

AFFAIRS. 

a. The French Revolution (1789). 

b. Washington refuses to aid France. 

198. CITIZEN GENET DEFIES WASHINGTON. 

199. JAY'S FRUITLESS TREATY WITH ENGLAND. 

c. Our difficulties with England. 

b. Jay's treaty makes the Americans indignant. 

200. POLITICAL PARTIES. 

201. THE " XYZ PAPERS." 

a. The French angry about the Jay treaty. 

b. Peace with France on two conditions. 

c. Serious trouble with France. 

202. ALIEN AND SEDITION LAWS (1798). 

a. The V'irginia and the Kentucky Resolutions (i 798-1 799). 

203. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S INFLUENCE IN STRENGTHEN- 
ING THE FEDERAL UNION. 

SETTLEMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

204. THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN 

LEADER, BECOMES PRESIDENT (1801). 

205. JEFFERSON'S "REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY." 

a. Simple in dress and manner. 

b. Jefferson the idol of the masses. 

206. PIONEERS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BEFORE THE 
REVOLUTION. 

a. The pack-horse and the forest-trail. 

207. LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE 
IN PIONEER DAYS. 

a. The cabin and its furniture. 
h. The settler. 

c. Amusements. 

208. THE FLATBOAT AND THE OHIO RIVER. 

a. Westward emigration. 

209. TWOFOLD USE OF RIVERS. 

a. The roundabout trip the settler must make in trading. 

210. NAPOLEON'S SCHEME TO PLANT COLONIES IN THE MISSIS- 
SIPPI VALLEY. 

a. His plan to secure Louisiana. 

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an. FRANCE REGAINS LOUISIANA FROM SPAIN (1800). 

a. French army for Louisiana detained at San Domingo. 

212, ALARM IN THE UNITED STATES. 

a. The indignant Westerners talk of war with Spain. 

213. THE UNITED STATES PURCHASES LOUISIANA (1803). 

a. Results of the Purchase. 

b. Jefferson's bold action. 

C14. LEWIS AND CLARK'S EXPEDITION THROUGH THE LOUI- 
SIANA TERRITORY TO THE PACIFIC (1804-1806). 
a. Results of the expedition. 

215. WAR WITH THE BARBARY STATES (1801-1815). 

a. War with Tripoli. 

b. Results of war with the Barbary States. 

216. FULTON'S STEAMBOAT (1807) AND RIVER NAVIGATION. 

a. The Clermont. 

b. Use of the steamboat on Western rivers. 

217. BURR'S CONSPIRACY. 

THE WAR OF 181 2, OR THE SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 

218. ENGLAND CLAIMS THE RIGHT TO SEARCH AMERICAN VES- 

SELS AND IMPRESS AMERICAN SEAMEN. 

a. " Once an Englishman, always an Englishman." 

b. Fraudulent naturalization. 

c. More than four thousand Americans impressed. 

d. The Leopard fires upon the Chesapeake. 

e. Results. 

219. ENGLAND AND FRANCE GREATLY INJURE AMERICAN COM- 

MERCE ( 1 806-1 807). 

a. England's " Orders in Council " and Napoleon's " Decrees." 

220. JEFFERSON'S PEACE POLICY AND THE EMBARGO (1807)0 

a. Disastrous results of the Embargo. 

b. Bitter dissatisfaction leads to the repeal of the Embargo. 

221. TECUMSEH'S CONSPIRACY (1811). 

a. Tecumseh and his plans. 

b. Battle of Tippecanoe and its results. 

222. CAUSES OF THE WAR OF 1812: POLITICAL PARTIES. 

a. Napoleon's trick. 

b. Increasing trouble with England. 

c. Attitude of the two political parties toward war v/ith England. 

d. War declared. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

323. THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVIES. 

224. FIGHT BETWEEN THE "CONSTITUTION" AND THE " GUER- 
RIERE" (1812). 

225. SUPERIORITY OF AMERICANS IN NAVAL BATTLES. 

a. English war vessels blockade our coast. 

b. Privateers. 

226. WAR IN THE NORTHWEST (1812-1813). 

227. PERRY WINS A BRILLIANT VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE (1813). 

a. Perry's remarkable energy. 

b. His bravery. 

c. His victory. 

228. THREE-FOLD ATTACK OF THE BRITISH IN 1814. 

229. MCDONOUGH'S VICTORY ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN. 

230. THE BRITISH CAPTURE WASHINGTON AND ATTACK BAL- 
TIMORE (1814). 

231. WAR WITH THE CREEK INDIANS (1814). 

232. BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (1815). 

a. Andrew Jackson's preparations. 

b. Bloody repulse of the British. 

c. Result of the battle. 

233. THE HARTFORD CONVENTION (December, 1S14- January, 1815). 

a. New England dissatisfied. 

b. The people greatly excited. 

c. What the Hartford Convention did. 

234. TREATY OF PEACE AND RESULTS OF THE WAR. 

DEVELOPMENT WEST OF THE ALLEGHANIES 

235. PURCHASE OF FLORIDA (1819). 

a. The Seminole Indians protect runaway slaves. 

b. Jackson in Florida. 

236. THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1823). 

a. Spain and the " Holy Alliance." 

b. The Monroe Doctrine. 

c. Results of the Monroe Doctrine. 

237. THE NATIONAL ROAD. 

a. Two obstacles to westward migration. 

b. The steamboat and the oack-horse 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

238. THE NATURAL BOUNDARY-LINE BETWEEN FREEDOM AND 

SLAVERY. 

a. Slavery in the North and in the South. 

239. THE QUESTION OF THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY INTO 

THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY. 

a. The South eager to maintain an equality in the Senate. 

240. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820). 

a. Attitude of the North and the South toward slavery in Missouri. 

b. Missouri and Maine. 

c. The two provisions of the Missouri Compromise. 

241. THE ERIE CANAL (1825). 

c. Difi&culties in building the canal. 

242. RESULTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ERIE CANAL. 

243. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 

a. Two ways of making internal improvements. 

b. The "Elastic. Clause" of the Constitution. 

244. NEW PROBLEMS AND A NEW POLITICAL PARTY. 

a. .The era of good feeling. 

b. Three pressing questions. 

C. The National Republican party. 



CHAPTER XVI 
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST (1829-1844) 

245. CHARACTER OF ANDREW JACKSON. 

a. A man of the people. 

246. THE SPOILS SYSTEM. 

a. Rotation in office. 

247. "A TARIFF FOR REVENUE WITH INCIDENTAL PROTEC- 
TION." 

248. A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. 

a. English goods in American markets. 

«49. SOUTH CAROLINA OBJECTS TO A HIGH PROTECTIVE 
TARIFF. 

a. The high tariff of 1828. 

b. Slavery and the four great staples of the South. 

c. The South desires free trade. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY . 

950. CALHOUN AND NULLIFICATION (1831-1832). 

a. Calhoun believes in State rights and nullification. 

251. NEW ENGLAND MANUFACTURERS AND THE PROTECTIVE 
TARIFF. 

252. WEBSTER AND THE UNION. 

a. Webster believes the Union to be supreme over the States. 

253. JACKSON'S FEELING TOWARD NULLIFICATION. 

a. Jackson's toast. 

254. SOUTH CAROLINA AND STATE RIGHTS. 

a. South Carolina declares the tarifif acts null and void. 

b. The compromise with South Carolina. 

255. JACKSON AND THE UNITED STATES BANK. 

256. JACKSON'S REMOVAL OF DEPOSITS (1833). 

257. THE INTRODUCTION OF THE RAILROAD. 

a. The new problem. 

b. The first passenger railroad in the United States. 

258. THE GROWTH AND RESULTS OF THE RAILROAD. 

259. RAPID GROWTH OF THE WEST. 

260. SPECULATION IN WESTERN LANDS. 

261. WILD-CAT BANKING. 

262. THE UNITED STATES FREE FROM DEBT. 

263. STATE SPECULATION IN INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 

264. THE SPECIE CIRCULAR. 

265. THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1837. 

266. THE INDEPENDENT TREASURY 

a. Repudiation of State debts. 

267. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE NEWSPAPER. 

268. OTHER AIDS TO PROGRESS. 

a. Value of ether discovered (1846). 

269. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. 

a. The drinking habit during the vears which followed the V.'ar of 

1812. 

b. Temperance societies increase in number and influence. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 
CHAPTER XVII 

THE SLAVERY QUESTION (1841-1850) 

270. MORSE AND THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH (1844). 

a. What the telegraph has done for the world. 

b. Horace Wells and anaesthetics. 

271. " FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT " (1844). 

a. Conflicting claims to the Oregon country. 

272. AMERICAN SETTLERS STRENGTHEN OUR CLAIMS TO 
OREGON. 

a. Reasons for our claims to Oregon. 

b. American emigration in 1843 ^rid 1844. 

c. Oregon boundary dispute settled by treaty. 

273. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. 

a. The rights of the common people. 

274. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND "THE LIBERATOR." 

275. SOUTHERN OPPOSITION. 

276. NORTHERN OPPOSITION. 

277. GROWTH OF THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT. 

278. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS DEFENDS THE RIGHT OF PETITION. 

c. "Gag-law" in the House of Representatives 

TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR 

279. THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS. 

a. The Texans declare their independence of Mexico. 

b. Why the South favored the annexation of Texas. 

280. ATTITUDE OF THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH TOWARD THE 

MEXICAN WAR. 

281. THE CAUSES OF THE MEXICAN WAR. 

a. General Taylor advances into the disputed territory. 

b. Congress declares war. 

282. THE CHARACTER OF THE STRUGGLE. 

a. The battles all won by the Americans. 

283. RESULTS OF THE WAR. 

284. THE WTLMOT PROVISO. 

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OUlLi.NE OF AMEiaCAN HISTOr.7 

THE MEXICAN CESSION AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 

285. DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA AND ITS RESULTS 
(1848). 

a. Excitement of the people. 

b. The three routes to California. 

c. The dangers of the overland route. 

d. Results of the discovery of gold in California. 

286. CALIFORNIA SEEKS ADMISSION INTO THE UNION AS A 

FREE STATE (1849). 

287. DIFFICULT SLAVERY QUESTIONS IN 1850. 

a. Slavery in California and the District of Columbia. 

b. Threats of secession. 

288. THE COMPROMISE OF 1850. 

a. Henry Clay the "Peace Maker." 

b. The four essential clauses of the Omnibus Bill. 

289. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW AND ITS RESULTS IN THE 

NORTH. 

o. Indignation in the North. 

1190. PERSONAL LIBERTY BILLS AND THEIR RESULTS IN THE 
SOUTH. 

291. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 

292. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. 

293. COMMODORE PERRY SECURES A TREATY WITH JAPAN 

(1854). 

294. FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITIONS (1851-1860); THE OSTEND 
MANIFESTO (1854). 

a. The slaveholders eager for Cuba. 

THE FIGHT FOR SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES 

295. THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL (1854). 

a. The South desires a further extension of slave territory. 

b. Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. 

296. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CONTROL OF KANSAS. 

a. Emigrant aid societies in the North. 

b. Bloodshed in Kansas. 

297. TRIUMPH OF THE FREE-STATE MEN. 

a. Two tival governments in Kansas. 

298. ASSAULT ON CHARLES SUMNER (1856). 

a. Results of the assault. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

2Q9. NEW POLITICAL PARTIES (1854). 

a. The Whigs. 

b. The Republican Party. 

300. IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE. 

a. The reasons for the great increase in immigration from Europe. 

b. XVhy immigrants would not settle in the South. 

301. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH. 

a. Reasons why the South fell behind the North in prosperity. 

302. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH. 

303. INFLUENCE OF THE WEST IN FAVOR OF NATIONALISM. 

a. The prairie and the railroad. 

b. Friendly relations between the North and the West. 

c. National feeling in the West. 

304. THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1857. 

a. Causes of the panic. 

305. THE DRED SCOTT DECISION (1857). 

a. The principle of popular sovereignty applied to all the Territories, 

b. Dred Scott. 

c. The decision far-reaching. 

306. JOHN BROWN'S RAID AT HARPER'S FERRY (1859). 

a. John Brown and his plan. 

b. Results of the raid. 



CHAPTER XVIII 
SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR ri86o-i865) 

307. SLAVERY SPLIT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (i860). 

a. Slavery in the Territories. 

308. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

a. The boy and the man. 

b. Patient and persevering. 

309. THE SOUTHERN POINT OF VIEW. 

a. The State first in the South. 

310. THE NORTHERN POINT OF VIEW. 

a. The Union first in the North. 

311. STEPS TOWARD THE CIVIL WAR. 

a.. The trouble over slavery, 
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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

. ./. SECESSION OF THE REMAINING COTTON STATES AND 
ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFEDERACY (1861). 

3,3. ADVANTAGES OF THE NORTH. 

314. ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTH. 

515. THE SOUTH SEIZES NATIONAL PROPERTY; TI^E "STAR OF 
THE WEST." 

a. Southern men in the cabinet. 

b. Buchanan's indecision brings disaster upon the Union. 

310. LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 

31/. THE CONFEDERATES CAPTURE FORT SUMTER. 

a. The brave little garrison makes a stubborn defence. 

b. Results of the attack on Fort Sumter. 

318. SECESSION OF FOUR MORE ST.\TES. 

319. BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 

a. The opposing forces. 

b. The Northern army, at first successful, retreats in- a panic. 

3^0. RESULTS OF THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 
321. THE "TRENT" AFFAIR (1861). 

S2 2. ENGLAND RESENTS THE CAPTURE OF MASON AND SLIDELL. 

a. England sends troops and war-vessels to Canada. 

b. President Lincoln gives up Mason and Slidell. 

THE NATION IN PERIL 

323. UNION PLAN OF THE WAR. 

324. ENGLAND AND KING COTTON. 

325. THE BLOCKADE. 

326. The Mcrrimac and the Monitor (1862). 

a. The Confederates make an iron-clad of the Merrimac. 

b. The Mcrrimac plays havoc with the blockading squadron. 

c. Consternation in the North. 

d. The Monitor arrives just in time. 

e. The sturdy little Monitor saves the Union. 

327. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 

a. Why the North desired to get control of the Mississippi. 

328. CAPTURE OF FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON (1862). 

a. The Confederate line of defence. 



OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

32q. THE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG LANDING (OR SHILOH). 

a. General Grant waits for BuelL 

b. Grant wins a victory. 

330. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS. 

a. Confederate defences. 

b. Farragut runs by the forts. 

.^M. THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN (1862). ~ 

a. McClellan creates a splendid army. 

b. McClellan objects to Lincoln's plan. 

c. McDowell stationed at Fredericksburg. 

332. McCLELLAN ADVANCES UP THE PENINSULA. 

a. McClellan stops for a month at Yorktown. 

b. Battle of Fair Oaks. 

SSS. "STONEWALL" JACKSON IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY; 
McCLELLAN CHANGES HIS BASE OF SUPPMES. 
a. The "Seven Days' Battles." 

334. LEE'S FIRST INVASION OF THE NORTH (1862). 

a. Second Battle of Bull Run. 

b. Maryland people loyal to the Union. 

335. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM (September 17, 1862). 

a. Lee retreats into Virginia. 

b. Burnside, who supersedes McClellan, is defeated at Fredericks- 
burg. 

THE TIDE TURNS 

336. LEE'S SECOND INVASION OF THE NORTH; BATTLE OF GET- 

TYSBURG (1863). 
o. Hooker's defeat at Chancellorsville. 

b. Lee's reasons for invading the North in 1863. 

c. Lee's advance. 

d. The two armies meet at Gettysburg. 

e. The first day. 

/. The second day. 

g. The furious cannonade. 

k. Pickett's charge. 

i. Lee's defeat. 

337. CAPTURE OF VICKSBURG (1863); OPENING OF THE MIS- 
SISSIPPI RIVER. 

a. Grant attacks Vicksburg from the south. 

b. The Confederates starved into surrender. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

338. SLAVERY AND THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 

(Jaauary i, 1863). 

fl. The slaves aid the cause of the South. 

339. EMPLOYMENT OF EMANCIPATED BLACKS IN NORTHERN 
ARMY STOPS EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. 

a. Blacks in the Union armies. 

340. CONSCRIPTION IN THE NORTH; DRAFT RIOTS. 

341. CONSCRIPTION IN THE SOUTH. 

342. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA (1863). 

a. The importance of Chattanooga. 

b. General Thomas saves the Union army from ruinous defeat. 

343. SIEGE OF CHATTANOOGA. 

a. Critical situation of the Union army. 

344. BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA. 

a. Bragg's strong position. 

b. Two heroic charges by the Union troops. 

THE HAMMERING CAMPAIGN (1864). 

345. THE UNION PLAN OF 1864. 

a. General Grant in command of all the Union armies. 

b. Two great movements. 

346. "ON TO RICHMOND." 

c. In the Wilderness. 

b. Grant transfers his army across the James. 

347. EARLY'S RAID IN THE SHENANDOAH. 

a. Early threatens Washington and burns Chambersburg. 

348. SHERIDAN IN THE SHENANDOAH. 

a. "Sheridan's Ride." 

b. He defeats Early. 

549. "ON TO ATLANTA." 

a. Importance of Atlanta and Georgia. 

b. Sherman's difficulties. 

c. Capture of Atlanta. 

350. "SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA." 

a. A Christmas gift to President Lincola. 

351. CAPTURE OF MOBILE. 

c. The defence of Mobile. 

b. A terrible struggle. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

352. SYMPATHY OF ENGLISH WORKINGMEN WITH THE NORTH. 

353. ENGLAND AND THE CONFEDERATE NAVY. 

a. Confederate cruisers. 

b. The Alabama. 

c. The Kearsarge sinks the Alabama. 

d. The "Alabama Claims." 

354. NAPOLEON HI AND THE CONFEDERATE NAVY. 

a. Napoleon's desire to establish an empire in Mexico. 

b. Maximilian in Mexico. 

APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE 

2^^. FALL OF RICHMOND. 

a. Lee fails to break through Grant's army. 
h. Lee retreats. 

356. LEE'S SURRENDER (1865). 

c. Grant's delicacy of feeling. 

h. The generous attitude of the Government. 

357. FLIGHT AND CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. 

358. THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN (1865). 

a. The aim of the conspirators. 

b. The grief of the people. 

c. The spirit of Lincoln's noble service. 

359. THE SANITARY AND CHRISTIAN COMMISSIONS, 

a. The work of noble women. 

360. THE RESULTS OF THE WAR. 



RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW UNION 

CHAPTER XIX 

RECONSTRUCTION DAYS 

361. CONDITION OF THE SOUTH WHEN JOHNSON BECAME 

PRESIDENT. 

a. Perplexing questions. 

362. ANDREW JOHNSON. 

363. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PLAN OF RESTORING THE SE- 
CEDED STATES. 

364. THE FREEDMEN AND SOUTHERN LEGISLATION. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

365. THE CONGRESSIONAL PLAN OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE 

SECEDED STATES (1867). 

a. President Johnson's bitter feeling toward Congress. 

b. Two essential features of the Congressional plan. 

366. THE WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION COMPLETE (1871). 

367. BITTER STRUGGLE BETWEEN PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND 
CONGRESS (1S67-1868). 

a. The Tenure of Office Act. 

368. THE IMPEACiniCNT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. 

369. NEGRO SUFFRAGE AND CARPET-BAG RULE (1868-1871). 

G. The negro a freedman, a citizen, and a voter. 

b. Great disorder, heavy taxes, and bad laws. 

370. THE KU-KLUX KLAN (1868-1871). 

a. Brutal methods of the Ku-Klux Klan. 

371. PRESIDENT GRANT SENDS TROOPS TO THE SOUTIL 

a. Unsatisfactory results of reconstruction. 

CHAPTER XX 

THE NEW SOUTH (1877- ) 

372. PRESIDENT HAYES WITHDRAWS THE TROOPS FROM THE 
SOUTH (1877). 

373. EADS AND THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES (1879). 

c. The mud bars at the mouth of the Mississippi. 

b. Captain Eads proposes the "jetty system." 

c. Success of the plan. 

374. THE NEW SOUTH. 

a. Cotton. 

b. Railroads. 

c. Manufacturing. 

d. Natural mineral resources. 

e. Prosperity in the South. 

375. THE NEW ORLEANS COTTON CENTENNIAL (1884), 

a. New Orleans in 1884. 

376. THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION (1895). 

377. THE FREEDMEN AND EDUCATION (1865-. ). 

a. Industrial progress of the freedmen. 
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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

CHAPTER XXI 

THE NEW WEST (1865- } 

378. POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION. 

a. Immigration since 1880. 

b. Value of immigrants to the United States. 

379. INFLUENCE OF THE PUBLIC LANDS ON OUR NATIONAL 

GROWTH. 

a. The pre-emption system. 

b. The Homestead Bill. 

380. WESTWARD EXPANSION. 

a. The opening of the prairies. 

b. Reaping and threshing machines. 

c. The steam-driven gang-plow. 

d. Results of W^estward migration. 

381. THE MORMONS. 

a. Joseph Smith. 

b. Thrift of the Mormons in Utah. 

382. THE PACIFIC COAST AND CHINESE IMMIGRATION. 

a. Three reasons for opposition to Chinese immigration. 

383. THE PACIFIC RAILROADS FURNISH THE SHORT NORTH- 

WEST PASSAGE TO CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE INDIES (1869;. 
a. The five Pacific railroads and Western settlements. 
]b. The railroad and the telegraph help to maintain the Union. 

c. A short route to China and Japan. 

384. THE ARID REGION AND THE PROBLEM OF IRRIGATION. 

385. FOREST RESERVATIONS. 

CHAPTER XXII 
THE NEW UNION (1865- ) 

386. THE ATLANTIC CABLE (1866). 

a. The wire cable of 1858 not successful. 

b. Results of the Atlantic cable. 

387. THE PURCHASE OF ALASKA (1867). 

a. National resources of Alaska. 

388. GRANT'S INDIAN PEACE POLICY (1869). 

a. Failure of the war policy. 

b. Grievances of the Indians, 
r. The Indian reservation. 

d. Why the reservation system failed. 

e. The Dawes Act. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

389. THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1873. 

a. Speculation in railroad-building and Western lands. 

390. RAILROAD STRIKES (1877). 

391. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION (1876). 

a. What the Centennial taught the people. 

b. The telephone perfected (1876). 

392. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND THE PRESIDENCY 

(1877). 

a. A close election, 

b. The Joint High Commission. 

c. Decision in favor of Hayes. 

393. RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT (1879). 

a. Greenbacks during the Civil War. 

b. Greenbacks become as good as gold. 

394. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD (1881); CIVIL 

SERVICE REFORM (1883-1886). 

a. Reform in the civil service. 

b. Rapid growth of the reform. 

395. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE (1883). 

306. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION ACT (1886). 

397. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. 

a. Black lists and boycotting. 

398. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (i886). 

399. OKLAHOMA OPENED TO SETTLEMENT (1889) 

a. Rapid growth of Oklahoma. 

400. PENSION BILL (1890). 

401. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS (1889-1890). 

o. What the Pan-American Congress did. 

402. TROUBLE WITH ITALY (1890) AND WITH CHILI (1891). 

a. Assassination of the New Orleans Chief of Police. 

b. Three Italian citizens lynched. 

403. OUR NEW NAVY (1883- ). 

o. Need of a new navy. 

b. The strength of our navy. 

434. THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT SYSTEM INTRODUCED INTO 
MOST OF THE STATES (1888-1892) 

c. Demoralizing effects of buying votes. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

405. THE BERING SEA TROUBLE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION 

(1886-1893). 

a. England and the United States disagree. 

b. The decision. 

406. THE UNITED STATES AND THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION 

(1893-1894). 

407. THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION (1893). 

408. FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1893. 

409. SILVER LEGISLATION (1873-1893). 

a. Silver demonetized in 1873. 

b. The Bland Silver Bill (1878). 

c. The Sherman Act (1890). 

410. THE TARIFF QUESTION. 

a. $100,000,000 piled up in the Treasury every year. 

b. The McKinley Bill. 

c. The Wilson Bill. 

411. THE PULLMAN BOYCOTT AND THE GREAT RAILROAD 

STRIKE (1894). 

412. THE ANGLO-VENEZUELAN DIFFICULTY AND THE MONROE 

DOCTRINE (1895- 1 89 7). 

a. The boundary dispute settled by arbitration. 

413. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1896. 

a. Free silver and the tariff. 

b. The Republicans nominate McKinley and the Democrats 

Bryan. 

c. The "Dingley Tariff" (1897). 

CHAPTER XXIII 

THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 

414. THE CUBANS RISE AGAINST SPAIN (February, 1895). 

a. The brutal pohcy of concentration. 

415. BLOWING UP THE "MAINE." 

a. The Maine and the submarine mine. 

416. WAR DECLARED (April, 1898). 

a. Spain must give up Cuba. 

417- DEWEY'S BRILLIANT VICTORY AT MANILA. 

a. The Spanish fleet destroyed. 

b. Surrender of Manila. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

418. THE COMING OF CERVERA'S FLEET 

a. Cervera's plans. 

b. Cervera "bottled up" at Santiago. 

c. Lieutenant Hobson's daring exploit. 

419. ON TO SANTIAGO. 

a. Roosevelt Rough Riders at Las Guasimas. 

420. THE BATTLE OF SANTIAGO. 

a. A glorious American victory. 

421. CERVERA'S FLEET DESTROYED. 

422. RESULTS OF THE WAR (1899). 

423. PORTO RICO UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE UNITED 

STATES (1900). 

a. Americans relieve financial distress in Porto Rico. 

424. the re-election and assassination of president 

Mckinley (1900-1901). 

425. military and civil government in the philippine 

ISLANDS (1899-1901). 

a. Aguinaldo, the leader of a rebellion. 

b. Civil government in the Philippine Islands. 

426. CHINA AND THE " OPEN DOOR " (1900). 

a. The scramble for Chinese territory. 

b. The Chinese uprising against foreigners. 

427. THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA (1902). 

a. The Cubans organize a government. 

b. Help extended to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands. 

428. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL (1901-1904). 

a. The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. 

b. The Isthmian Canal Act. 

c. The revolution in Panama. 

d. The treaty with Panama. 

429. THE PACIFIC CABLE AND WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY (1903). 

430. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION AT ST. LOUIS 

(1904). 

431. THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDENT (1904). 

432. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS PEACEMAKER (1905). 

a. War between Russia and Japan. 
6. Immense influence of our country on world affairs. 
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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

433. THE ATLANTIC FLEET SAILS AROUND THE WORLD (1907- 

1909). 

434. THE SECOND PEACE CONFERENCE (1907). 

a. War or arbitration. 

435. THE UNITED STATES A WORLD-POWER. 

0. Independence from England. 

b. Independence from Europe. 

c. Greater America. 

d. The chief manufacturing nation. 



436. THE 


WORLD-POWERS OF EUROPE. 


a. 


Two movements. 


b. 


United Italy. 


c. 


United Germany. 


■ d. 


The Franco-Prussian War. 


2. 


A new Germanic empire. 


/• 


Wild scramble for territory. 


g- 


England. 


h. 


Germany, France, and Russia. 


i. 


Result of expansion. 



437. THE SPIRIT OF UNION AND OF NATIONALISM IN CANADA. 

a. Dissatisfaction in Upper and Lower Canada. 

b. A broader union in Canada. 

438. THE SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION AMONG THE NATIONS. 

43Q. THE CONSERVATION OF OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES. 

a. Natural resources. 

440. PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE REVISION OF THE TARIFF (1909). 
441- POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS (1910). 

442. ARBITRATION OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES DISPUTES 
(1910). 

443. GENERAL ARBITRATION TREATIES OF THE UNITED STATES 
WITH GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. 

a. Differences settled by arbitration. 

444. A NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN (191 1). 

c. Japanese exclusion. 

445- ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO MADE STATES (1912). 
a. Forty-eight States. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

446. WOODROW WILSON ELECTED PRESIDENT (191 2). 
(7. Issues of 191 2 campaign. 

447- REFORMS TO SECURE LARCER CONTROL OVER PUBLIC 
AFFAIRS FOR THE PEOPLE. 

a. Primaries select candidates. 

b. The short ballot. 

c. Commission form of go\'ernment. 

d. Aims to fix responsibility. 

e. The Initiative and Referendum. 
/. The Recall. 

g. People elect senators. 

448. PARCEL POST (1913). 

a. A marked change in transportation. 

b. A cheap means of delivery. 

449. THE TARIFF LAW AND THE INCOME TAX (1913). 

a. Income tax to raise revenue. 

b. The incomes that are taxed. 

450. THE CURRENCY AND BANKING LAW (1913). 

a. Its threefold object. 

b. The Federal Reserve Board. 

451. THE PANAMA TOLLS (1914). 

a. Panama tolls exemption repealed. 

452. THE UNITED STATES AND THE TROUBLES IN MEXICO. 

a. Trouble with Mexico. 

b. Huerta becomes dictator. 

c. Refusal to recognize Huerta. 

d. American sailors imprisoned. 

e. Vera Cruz captured as reparation. 
/. Mediation. 

g. Latin-American states more friendly toward us. 

h. Carranza recognized. 

i. American troops in Mexico. 

j. The National Guard on the border of Mexico. 

453. THE RAILWAY MANAGERS AND THE FOUR " BROTHERHOODS " 

(1916). 

a. The demands of the four "Brotherhoods." 

b. President Wilson's suggestion. 

c. Congress passes a law meeting the employees' wishes. 

d. A commission appointed. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

454. WOODROW WILSON RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT (1916). 

a. Issues of 1916 campaign. 

b. Results of the election. 

455. IMPORTANT LAWS PASSED BY CONGRESS. 

a. Rural Roads Act. 
h. Two other laws. 

456. THE PROGRESS OF PROHIBITION. 

a. ]\faine the first prohibition State. 

h. Rapid progress of temperance reform. 

457. THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL (1914)." 

458. THE UNITED STATES AND THE GREAT WAR IN EUROPE 

(1914-1918). 

a. A serious international situation. 

h. Our exports to Europe. 

c. Each side tries to cut off food supplies from the other, 

d. Our protest to Great Britain. 

e. Our protest to Germany. 

/. The position of our government. 

g. Germanj^'s position. 

459. PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS (AprU 2, 1917). 

a. President Wilson's memorable address. 

b. Object of German submarine warfare. 

c. Germany's promise to us. 

d. Her reckless lack of compassion or of principle. 

c. German submarine warfare a warfare against mankind. 

/. A war against all nations. 

g. "We will not choose the path of submission." 

//. Germany's course war against our country. 

/. A state of war formally declared. 

j. The people's loyalty and patriotism. 

460. OUR GOVERNMENT CO-OPERATES WITH THE POWERS ALLIED 
AGAINST GERMANY. 

a. The English and French War Missions. 

b. Certain definite things we could do. 

461. THE WHOLE NATION AT WAR. 

a. A fine spirit of co-operation. 

b. The National Council of Defense. 

c. Transportation across the sea. 

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OITLIXE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

462. CONGRESS PASSES THE "FOOD CONTROL BILL." 

(7. Great need of food in the allied counlries. 
/). Millions of private gardens. 

463. THK HLKiK TASK OF PROVIDING .\N .VDF.QU.VTE ARM\ .\.\I) 
NAVY. 

a. Increa.se in the nav}-. 

b. The selective draft. 

c. The whole nation a team. 

d. The first draft. 

464. NA\'AL AND MILITARY AID TO OUR ALLIES. 

a. The United States Naval Reserve Force. 

b. The Aviation Bill. 

465. MEETING THE EXPENSES OF THE WAR. 

a. The first two "Liberty Loans." 

466. GENEROUS GIFTS FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. 

467. OUR GOVERNMENT SENDS A MISSION TO RUSSIA. 

468. OUR COUNTRY PLAYING A LARGE PART IN INTERNATIONAL 
LIFE. 

a. Our duty and interests as a world power. 

469. GOVERNMENT OPERATION AND CONTROL OF THE RAIL- 
ROADS. 

(I. Much confusion in transportation. 

b. Need of bringing all the railroads under one control. 

470. THE COAL SHORTAGE. 

(/. A shutdown of industries. 

b. Three reasons for the shutdown. 

471. OUR N.WY AND OUR MERCHANT SHIPPING. 

a. Two reasons for making our navy powerful. 

b. A great merchant marine needed. 

c. The shipping schedule much improved. 

472. THE PATRIOTIC SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

a. "We are all comrades." 

CHAPTER XX I \ 

SOME INDUSTRIAL, ECONOMIC, SOCI.\L, .^ND POLITICAL CONDITIONS AND 
PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 

473. THE NATURAL ADVANTAGES OF THE UNITED ST.\TES. 

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OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY 

474. THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY. 

a. The industrial revolution. 

b. The spinning machine and the power loom. 

c. The first modern factory. 

d. The sewing machine (1846). 

475. IRON AND STEEL. 

a. The use of anthracite coal. 

/). Steel rails and cheaper transportation. 
c. Extensive use of steel. 

476. RAILROAD RATE REGULATION. 

(7. Railroad rates not fair to all shippers. 

b. The Interstate Commerce Act. 

c. The rate laws of 1906 and 1910. 

477. THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (1914). 

478. TRUSTS AND THE REGULATION 07 TRUSTS. 

a. The Anti-Trust Law. 

479. THE GROWTH OF OUR FOREIGN TRADE. 

a. The United States leads the world in exports. 

b. The immense volume of our expanding commerce. 

450. ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. 

a. The many uses of electricity. 

451. INVENTIONS AS AIDS TO HUMAN PROGRESS. 

a. The automobile and the flying machine. 

482. CITY POPULATIONS AND MUNICIPAL REFORM. 

483. EDUCATION. 

a. Liberal provision made for public schools. 

b. Interest in higher education. 

c. Special training for the farm and for modern industry. 

d. The education of women. 

e. Education of the weak and helpless. 
4S4. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 

a. Advance in the education of women. 

b. Their larger outlook upon life. 
485. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS. 

a. The linotype and the complex printing press. 
4S6. LITERATURE. 

(7. Irving, Cooper, and Bryant. 

b. Other familiar names in American literature. 

487. PROBLEMS OF THE HOUR. 

488. RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN TO THE STATE. 

a. America means opportunitj'. 

b. Our national flag. 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 
Diecoveri? of Hmedca 

CHAPTER I 

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Li 
Wright's Children's Stories in American History; Richardson's History of 
Our Country; Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies; Eggleston's Household 
History; Bancroft's United States, I.; Andrews's United States, I. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Irving's Columbus; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isa- 
bella; Winsor's Columbus; Fiske's Discovery of America; Towle's Heroes 
of History (Marco Polo ; also Vasco Da Gama) ; Brooks's The Story of Marco Pola 

1. European Trade with Asia in the Fifteenth Cen- 
tury. — For many hundred years there had been more or 
less trade between the people of Europe and Asia. Silks, 
spices, and precious stones had been brought by ships and 
caravans from India, China, and Japan, enriching the cities 
of southern Europe. Genoa and Venice, especially, had 
been made rich by this eastern trade, which continued to 
grow until i453, when the Turks conquered Constantinople. 
This was thirty-nine years before Columbus discovered 
America. At this time European vessels on the Mediter- 
ranean Sea were no longer safe from the attack of these 
fierce and warlike people. Therefore Europe began to look 
for another and safer route to the Indies. 

2. Aids to Discovery. — Three inventions which had re- 
cently come into practical use had made discovery less 
difficult than it had ever been before, (i) Gunpowder 
made easier the conquest of uncivilized peoples : (2) the 



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A SHIP OF THE NORSEMKN. 
Remains of a viking ship and a sketch showing steering board. 

mariner's compass encouraged the sailor to venture far out 
into the sea; (3) and the printing-press spread abroad the 
knowledge of new-found lands. Men were full of curiosity, 
and the more they learned the more they wished to know. 
With this burning desire for knowledge went hand in hand 
the spirit of adventure. There was a longing to go into 
distant lands, to perform great deeds, and to bring home 
gold and jewels. In these far-away lands men thought 
they should find honor, wealth, and fame. 

3. Portugal Leads in Discovering an Eastern Route. 
— Portugal is to-day a very unimportant country. At the 
time when men were trying to find a safe water route to 
the Indies, she was one of the great powers of the world. 
She was the leader in many adventures and discoveries 
reaching through a period of two centuries. Early in the 
fifteenth century, Portuguese vessels and seamen were 
slowly and cautiously skirting the coast of Africa, and after 
seventy years of brave struggle they found the Cape of 
Good Hope.' Portugal had at this time many vessels and 

* Diaz reached the southern point of Africa in I487 and called it the Cape of 
Storms. It was afterward significantly named the Cape of Good Hope. 



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seamen, and was the first country to find a new route to 
the Indies. 

4. Plans of Columbus. — In the meantime Christopher 
Columbus, in common with some learned men of his time, 
had decided that the eastern coast of Asia could be reached 
by sailing westward across the Atlantic. Columbus 
thought, also, that Asia was no farther from Europe on 
the west than we now know America to be. He thought 
the East Indies were directly west from the Canary Islands. 
This being so, the easiest way of reaching China, India, and 
Japan would be to sail down to the Canaries, and from 
them straight across the Atlantic in a westerly direction. 
To us, with our knowledge, all this seems simple and nat- 
ural enough, but it was not so then. Men knew little of 
the world outside of their own country. Sailors were afraid 
to venture upon the trackless ocean, or Sea of Darkness, as 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



they called the Atlantic, where death seemed likely to meet 
them. Moreover, practical difficulties stood in the way, 
DiHicuiticsof Such an enterprise would require the equip- 

Coiumbus. ment of vessels at much expense. Money 

and influence were essential. Columbus had neither, but he 
was eager to fit out an expedition. He went with his plans 
to his native city. Genoa, and then to Portugal and Spain. 

He sent his brother to Eng- 
land and to France. Then he 
w^ent to Spain again. He was 
nowhere successful. Some 
thought he was an idle dream- 
er, and others that he was a 
madman. But he never de- 
spaired, because he had faith 
in himself and believed also 
that his work was under the 
special direction of God. 

5. First Voyage of Co- 
lumbus (1492). — Finally, after 
seven years of anxious wait- 
ing, the brave Columbus found 
success. Isabella, Queen of Spain, agreed to aid him in 
carrying out his plans. Still there were difficulties. Sail- 
ors were unwilling to go on the dangerous voyage, but 
were compelled to yield to the mandate of the king. 
Three small vessels, onh' one of which had a deck, were 
fitted out. The largest of these, the Santa Maria, was com- 
manded by Columbus. The others were the Nina and the 
Pinta. Before sunrise, August 3, 1492, this little fleet, with 
one hundred and twenty men and provisions for a year, 
sailed out of the port of Palos. It was a sad hour for the 
poor sailors. Columbus steered for the Canaries, where he 
stopped over three weeks to make a rudder for one of his 
Columbus sets vcsscls. He then set sail again. As soon as 
"''• they could no longer see land, the sailors were 

overcome with fear and cried like children. At the end 
*jt a week the compass needle did not point to the North 




THE PINTA. 



DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 



Star. Failing to understand the reason for this, the sailors 
were struck with terror. Three days later the vessels en- 
tered wide stretches of sea-weed. It was then feared that 
the vessels might strike upon hidden rocks and be dashed 
to pifces. But they passed on in safety. 

Soon afterward the sailors were gladdened by the sight 
of birds, which they thought indicated that land was near 
It was an idle hope, for no land appeared. Again and 
again the cry " Land " was shouted, but in every case the cry 
was called forth by the sight of distant clouds. The sailors in 
The poor sailors were in despair. They were despair, 
now in the belt of the trade-winds, which were steadily and 
certainly blowing them farther and farther from home and 
friends. " We can never re- 
turn to Spain," they said. 
"What shall we do?" They 
begged Columbus to turn 
back. He refused. They be- 
came angry and talked of 
throwing him overboard. He 
knew he was in danger and 
tried hard to quiet their fears 
and to give them hope. It 
was then that his great influ- 
ence over men was shown. 
His tall and manly figure 
gave him a commanding pres- 
ence, but his greatest strength 
in these trying days lay in 
his noble soul and his lofty 
purpose. His courage never 
failed him. Sometimes he 
heartened the sailors with promises of wealth and fame, 
and again, as occasion demanded, he threatened them with 
punishment from the Spanish king. 

At last, after a voyage of ten weeks, land was discovered 
October 12,^ 1492. In a full suit of armor and bearing the 

' October 21 by the present method of reckoning time. 




THE SAXTA MARIA. 



O HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

flag of Spain, Columbus landed. With tears of joy he 

knelt upon the ground and offered thanks to God. Then, 

planting the royal banner, he took possession 

Land discovered. r , , , . , r i i • i 

oi the land in the name oi the king and queen 
of Spain. He had discovered one of the Bahama Islands 
which he called San Salvador (Holy Saviour). He coasted 
along the shores of' Cuba and Hayti, touched the coast here 
and there, and sent reconnoitring parties inland to exam- 
ine the land. He did not find the cities of Asia as he had 
expected, but he had no doubt that he was in the East In- 
dies, and therefore called the natives Indians. 

6. Other Voyages of Columbus. — When Columbus re- 
turned to Spain with the news of his discovery, the people 
were enthusiastic with delight. The idle dreamer became 
suddenly great and famous, and honors were heaped ui)()n 
him from every side. It was easy enough to find sailors 
and vessels for a second voyage, which was made in the 
following year, 1493. Men were now eager to go where 
they expected to get all kinds of wealth. Four voyages 
were made in all, but when the adventurers reached the 
land of their hopes, and found no silks, no spices, no pre- 
cious stones, no gold, they reproached Columbus. The 
Court of Spain, also, finding no return for the great ex- 
pense of fitting out these expeditions, censured him. His 
Last days of cncmies increased, and his last days were spent 
Columbus. in disappointment and neglect. Heart-broken, 
he died ignorant of the greatness of his own discovery, 

7. John Cabot Discovers the Mainland of North Amer- 
ica (1497). — In consequence of the discoveries by Colum- 
The "Line of De- ^^^^ ^" ^^^ Wcst and of thosc by Portuguese 
marcation " di- captains in the East, it was feared there might 
vides the heathen ^^ troublc bctwecn Spain and Portugal oVer 

possessions of x » 

Spain and Porta- the ncw-fouud lauds. To keep the peace, 
'■'• therefore, between these two great Catholic 

countries, a treaty was signed in 1494, dividing between 
them the heathen lands that had been, or should be, discov- 
ered. " The Line of Demarcation," extending north and 
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Voyages of the 
Cabots. 



Verde Islands, ran between Spain's possessions on the 
West and those of Portugal on the East. The powerful 
navies of these two countries were sufficient to make good 
their claims against England or any other nation. But Eng- 
land was determined to have some share in the discoveries 
that were stirring the hearts of men. Hence, in 1497, Henry 
Vn. sent out John Cabot, accompanied possibly by his son 
Sebastian, to find a short northwest passage to Asia. By 

sailing across the northern part 
of the Atlantic, England avoided 
difficulties likely to arise from 
coming in contact with Spanish 
or Portuguese discoverers far- 
ther south. John Cabot landed 
somewhere on the 
eastern coast of 
North America, possibly on the 
coast of Labrador. He was 
therefore the first to discover 
the mainland of the Continent 
of North America, and he 
claimed it in the name of Eng- 
land. The next year Sebastian Cabot sailed from England 
and explored the coast of North America from Nova Scotia 
down as far as North Carolina or farther. Upon these 
discoveries England based her claim to North America. 

8. Americus Vespucius and the Naming of America 
(1499-1503). — Americus Vespucius, a native of Florence and 
a navigator, was first employed by Spain and later by 
Portugal, to make explorations. In 1499 he skirted the 
coast of Venezuela and northeastern South America. 
During the next four years he made several voyages to 
Brazil, and explored its coast as far south as the mouth 
of the La Plata River. On returning to Europe he wrote 
a good description of what he had seen. This was pub- 
lished in 1504, and constituted the first printed account of 
the mainland of the New World. Up to that time Europe, 
Asia, and Africa were known as the three parts of the 




SEBASTIAN CABOT. 



DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 



world, and one distinguished geographer believed there 
was an unknown southern continent which constituted the 
fourth part. It now seemed clear that Americus Vespu- 
cius had proved the existence of the fourth part. In con- 
sequence of this belief a German professor, New worid 
who printed a little treatise on geography a ""«** America, 
few years later, suggested that the fourth part should be 
called America, after Americus Vespucius. According to 
this suggestion the name Amer- 
ica was at first applied to Brazil, 
later to , South America, and 
later still to the whole of the 
New World. 

9. Magellan Proves America 
to be a Continent (1519-1521). 
—What America and the New 
World meant was as yet by no 
means clear. By some, America 
was supposed to be an immense 
island, like Australia; by others, 
a peninsula extending in a south- 
easterly direction from Asia. 
In 1 5 19 Magellan, a Portuguese 
captain in command of a Spanish 
fleet, started on a voyage whose F>-o7n statue ly g. crazzim in the ujizi 

, . , , 1 A • I Gallery, Florence, Italy. 

object was to reach Asia by way 

of a passage through America. After coasting down much 
of the eastern shore of South America, he discovered and 
sailed through the strait now bearing his Wonderful voy- 
name. Mutiny, starvation, and other hard- age of nageiian. 
ships that would have driven back a less heroic man were 
bravc'y endured. He sailed for some distance up the west- 
ern side of South America, and then steered his way across 
the Pacific. He was killed by the natives in the Philippine 
Islands, but a part of his men succeeded in finding their 
way back to Spain. This was the most wonderful voyage 
that had ever been made, because it proved that the earth 
was a globe, and that America was distinct continent. 




AMERICUS VESrUCIUS. 



DIbCOVERY OF AMERICA II 



TO THE PUPIL. 



Trace on the map the Eastern trade routes in the fifteenth century. 

In what way did printing aid discovery ? What advantage did the 

control of the water route to India give to Portugal ? 
Imagine yourself to be Columbus and write an account, in the first 

person, of your plans, your difficulties, and your first voyage. Trace 

this voyage on the map. What do you admire in the character of 

Columbus ? 
How did America receive its name ? Was this fair to Columbus ? 

Give reasons for your answer. 
What was the distinctive work of Columbus ? Of Americus Ves- 

pucius ? Of Magellan ? 
Read in Fiske's Discovery of America the account of Magellan's 

wonderful voyage. 



NOTES 

Lief Ericssm and the Northmen. — The old inhabitants of Norway were 
called Northmen or Norsemen. These people were bold and hardy sail- 
ors, and in the ninth and tenth centuries were famous sea-robbers. In 
order to find new fields for plunder and adventure they sought strange 
coasts. On one of these expeditions they reached Iceland and on another 
Greenland. In each of these islands they made settlements. The brave 
deeds of these old warriors are preserved in the so-called " Sagas," which 
were written in Icelandic prose. For a long time these Sagas were trans- 
mitted orally, but finally they were committed to writing. Three of the 
Sagas tell us of the daring adventures of Lief Ericsson in his wanderings 
in the year looo a.d. along the eastern coast of North America. As the 
story goes. Lief Ericsson, with a crew of thirty-five men, started out in 
search of a land which had been visited by another Northman. Sailing 
west. Lief touched upon the coast of Labrador and thence, proceeding 
south, he landed, built huts, and spent the winter near the coast. Finding 
vines hung with grapes, he called the country Vinland. Some historians 
have supposed that Lief Ericsson's Vinland was somewhere on the coast of 
Massachusetts, but the weight of authority is in favor of Cape Breton Island 
or Nova Scotia. Other Northmen visited Vinland but they made no per- 
manent settlements. Nothing reliable can be found out about these early 
expeditions, and nothing of importance ever came of them. 



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CHRONOLOGY 

870. ICELAND DISCOV'ERED BY NADDOD, THE NORTHMAN. 
1000. LEIF, SON OF ERIC THE RED, DISCOVERS AMERICA. 
1450. INVENTION OF PRINTING, ABOUT THIS DATE. 
1453. THE TURKS CAPTURE CONSTANTINOPLE. 
1492. FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS ; DISCOVERY OF WEST INDIES. 

1497. JOHN CABOT DISCOVERS NORTH AMERICA. 

1498. THIRD VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS ; HE DISCOVERS THE CONTINENT OF SOUTH 

AMERICA. 

VOYAGE OF SEBASTIAN CABOT. 
1409. FIRST VOYAGE OF AMERICUS VESPUCIUS. 
1504. AMERICUS VESPUCIUS'S NARRATIVE PUBLISHED, 
1507. AMERICA NAMED. 
15 13. DISCOVERY OF FLORILA BY JUAN PONCE DE LEON. 

PACIFIC OCEAN DISCOVERED BY VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA. 
1519-21. CORTEZ CONQUERS MEXICO. 
15 19-2 1. A SHIP OF MAGELLAN'S EXPEDITION SAILS AROUND THE WORLD. 



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lEypIoration an^ dolonlsation 



CHAPTER II 

SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, I.; 
Wright's Children's Stories in American History; Richardson's History of 
Our Country; Bancroft's United States, I.; Higginson's American Explorers; 
Morris's Half Hours with American History, 1.; Andrews's United States, I, 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Prescott's Conquest of Mexico; Prescott's Con- 
quest of Peru; Fiske's Discovery of America; Winsor's Narrative and Critical 
History, II.; Higginson's American Explorers; Parkman's Pioneers of France 
in the New World (Huguenots). 

FICTION: Henty's By Right of Conquest; Wallace's The Fair God; 
Munroe's Flamingo Feather ; Munroe's The White Conqueror. 




An early Spanish 
ejcplorer. 



10. Precious Metals the Main Object of 
Spaniards. — Spain is to-day a third-rate 
power, but in the early part of the sixteenth 
century she was the greatest power in Eu- 
rope. She had a mighty navy, manned by 
daring and patriotic seamen, and she was 
ambitious to extend her sway over much of 
the heathen world. The marvellous stories 
of the treasures to be found in the New 
World dazzled the imagination of the Span- 
iards. Believing that gold and silver made 
the only true wealth, they were willing to 
undergo almost any suffering to secure 
them. 

11. De Leon Discovers Florida (1513). — 
AmonsT these fortune-hunters was an old 



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OLD SPANISH MISSION, NEW MEXICO, lUILT 1604. 

man, Ponce de Leon, who had been governor of the island 
of Porto Rico. He had heard the natives tell stories of rich 
gold mines, and of a wonderful fountain in the land of the 
North, the drinking of whose waters would restore youth 
and vigor to old age. De Leon conducted an expedition 

northward by which he 
hoped to secure for him- 
self wealth and young 
manhood. The gold and 
the fountain he did not 
find, but he discovered 
something of much 
greater value to Spain, 
a beautiful land cwvered 
with flowers. This he 
named Florida (15 13). 
A few years later De 
Leon returned to Flor- 
ida with the purpose of 
planting a colony, but 
he was killed by an un- 
friendlv Indian. 

12. De Soto Explores 

Florida and Discovers 

the Mississippi (1539-1541). — The failure of De Leon and 

Narvaez did not prevent other Spaniards from making sim- 




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SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD 



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ilar attempts. In 1539 De Soto, with about six hundred men, 
two hundred horses, and bloodhounds to hunt the Indians, 
landed on the west coast of Florida in search of the new 
kingdom of gold. The Indians 
did not fear the bloodhounds 
more than they hated the Span- 
iards, whom they fiercely op- 
posed. Northward and west- 
ward the Spaniards wandered in 
their fruitless search for gold 
mines. They found, instead, 
•' fighting, fever, and famine." 
One great, unlooked-for discov- 
ery it was their fortune to make. 
That was the discovery of the 
Mississippi River. They jour- 
ne^^ed many miles beyond it 
but soon returned, and at last, 
after two years of hopeless wan- 
dering, De Soto, worn out and 
sick at heart, died and was bur- 
ied in the great river which he 
had discovered (1541). His sur- 
viving companions sailed down 
the Mississippi and found shel- 
ter in the Spanish settlement of 
Mexico.^ De Soto, like De Leon, 
failed ; nor were any Spanish explorations in the country 
north of Mexico successful. 

13. The Spaniards Drive the Huguenots out of Florida. 
(1562-1565). — For more than twenty years after De Soto's 
failure the Spaniards made no further efforts in Florida. 
In the meantime a bitter religious war broke out in France 
between the Catholics and the Huguenots. 2 Colign}'-, the 
distinguished leader ot the Huguenots, desired to establish 

' Cortez had conquered Mexico and established Spanish colonies there (15 19- 
1521). Pizarro had conquered Peru (1531-1533"). 
' French Protestants. 




BALBOA. 
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a commonwealth of his own religious sect in America. 
Accordingly he sent over in 1562 a small number of settlers 
Huguenot set- who tried to plant a colony where Port Royal, 
ttiements. So.ith Carolina, now stands. The colony 

having failed, another expedition under good leadership 
was sent out in 1564. This time the French planted a fort 
not far from the mouth of the St. John's River, Florida, 
But for several reasons Spain laid claim to Florida: (i) By 

right of discovery through Colum- 
bus. (2) by the explorations of De 
Why Spain laid Lcou and Dc Soto; and 

claim to Florida. (^^ \)y the Popc's dc- 

crcc, which assigned that part of the 
heathen world to Spain. The king 
of Spain, therefore, was indignant 
that the French should make any 
settlement there, and at once decided 
to send out a force to destroy the 
insolent intruders. This Spanish 
force was under the command of 
Menendcz, who in 1565 landed in 
Florida and built a stronghold which 
later became St. Augustine. Then he 
marched across the country, and by surprise and treachery 
succeeded in destroying all but a miserable remnant of the 
The Spaniards de. uufortunatc Frenchmen who had established 
stroy the Hugue- ^_j^g settlement. It was a cruel work, thor- 

not settlement in r, i r- i . 11 

Florida. oughly donc.^ Ihe French learned a lesson 

from their unpleasant experience with the Spaniards at this 
time, and made no further attempt to plant colonies in the 
southern part of what is now the United States. 

14. Advantages of Spain in the New World. — The ad- 
vantages of Spain in the New World were many, two of 
which we will notice. In the tropical regions of Mexico, 

' Although at this time France and Spain were at peace, the French did nothing 
to resent this wrong. A French captain, Dominic de Gourgues, however, deter- 
mined upon revenge in the name of his country Having a private grudge against 
the Spaniards, who had imprisoned him and made him work in the galleys, he fitted 




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South America, and the West Indies, the Indians lived in a 
warm cHmate, supported themselves by a rude tillage of 
the soil, and could be easily enslaved. In this respect 
Spain had a decided advantage over the nations colonizing 
in the North, where the Indians had been made hardy and 
brave by exposure to rougher climate and almost continu- 
ous inter-tribal warfare. These Indians were dangerous 




enemies to the white settlers. And surpassing all other 
advantages was the possession of the Gulf of Mexico and 
the mouth of the Mississippi River. 

15. Reasons for Spanish Failure. — But in spite of these 
advantages the Spaniards failed, and they failed because 

out at his own expense an expedition to Florida. Until the proper time he con- 
cealed his real purpose. Then he sailed straight to Florida, and with the aid of the 
Indians surprised the Spanish forts on the St. John's River and put to the sword 
nearly all the Spanish soldiers. As his force was too small to attack St. Augustine 
^e returned to France, leaving Spain in control of Florida. 
4 



les HISTORY OF THE UxNITED STATES 

their conceptions and aims were wrong. Their greatest 
desire was for gold and silver, conquest, and adventure. 
They did not understand that the soil must first be con- 
quered, and that in order to develop agriculture, trade, and 
commerce, a life of patient toil was necessary. As they 
wished to get rich without work, the gold and silver which 
they found made them poor because it took away habits of 
industry. In North America Spanish colonization was a 
total failure. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. There are some dates which you should know as w^ell as the alphabet. 

One of these is 1492. Just about fifty years later De Soto, the 
last Spanish explorer of note, discovered the Mississippi River. 

2. 1492-1541. Memorize these dates and remember that Balboa, De 

Leon, Cortez, Pizarro, and the other Spanish explorers did their 
work at some time within these fifty years. Just when, it is not im- 
portant to know. 

3. Why did Spain lay claim to Florida ? What advantages did Spain 

have ? Why^ did Spanish colonization fail in North America ? You 
may well notice the fact that in the struggle among European coun- 
tries fcr colonizing North America, Spain practically dropped out of 
the race after establishing St. Augustine. 

4. To develop accuracy, frequently w^rite for five minutes on such topics 

as the following: De Soto's expedition, the Huguenots in Florida. 
Use your map constantly. 

5. Read Munroe's Flamingo Feather. 

NOTES 

Balboa Discovers the Pacific (15 13). — Balboa, a Spaniard in command 
of a company of men at Darien, made his way across the Isthmus of Pan- 
ama (then known as the Isthmus of Darien) and discovered the Pacific 
Ocean. He took possession of the sea in the name of his king. 

Cortez Conquers Mexico (151 9-1 521). — In 1519 Hernando Cortez began 
the conquest of Mexico. Although his army numbered less than five 
hundred Spaniards, he burned his fleet behind him at Vera Cruz and boldly 
set forth against the powerful Mexican ruler, Montezuma. Under an ordi- 
nary leader the Spaniards must have been destroyed, but Cortez, with rare 
courage and foresight, led them on to victory. Before the close of 1521 
Mexico had become a Spanish province. 



SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD 19 

Narvaez Explores Florida (1528). — As the greedy Spaniards now had 
fresh hopes of finding gold, and silver in the new country, Narvaez fitted out 
an expedition that landed on the western coast of Florida (1528.) After 
passing through the severest hardships, he and many of his men were 
drowned. His secretary, Cabeza de Vaca, and three companions fell into 
the hands of the Indians. Passing through many thrilling experiences, they 
wandered during eight years over two thousand miles of territory and finally 
joined, on the Gulf of California, a body of Spaniards from Mexico. 

Pizarro Conquers Peru (1531-1533). — In 1531 Pizarro sailed from 
Panarha, with the purpose of conquering Peru for Spain. By bravery, 
cruelty, and treachery, he succeeded in carrying out his plan (1533). Peru, 
like Mexico, yielded to Spain vast quantities of gold and silver, which greatly 
aided her in carrying on her European wars. 



CHAPTER III 

ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 

i^EFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, II. j 
VI right's Children's Stories in American History; Richardson's History of Our 
Country; Morris's Half Hours with American History, I.; Eggleston's House- 
hold History; Winsor's Narrative and Critical History, III.; Andrews's United 
States, I. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Towle's Heroes of History (Drake and Raleigh); 
Higginson's United States; Montgomery's English History ; Camden's His- 
tory of Queen Elizabeth ; Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles. 

FICTION: Scott's Kenilworth; Kingsley's Westward Ho!; Henty'A 
Under Drake's FIa<r. 



i6, 

claim 



Relations Between Spain and England. — England's 
to North America was based upon the discoveries of 
the Cabots, who reached the 
mainland shortly after Colum- 
bus made his first landing on 
the West Indies. But Spain 
was the leading naval power 
in Europe. She controlled the 
Netherlands, and her mighty 
fleets sailed far and wide over 
the seas. England was not then 
the power she is now, and she 
was not strong enough to pre. 
vent Spain from carrying out 
her plans in America. So Eng- 
lish explorers did not venture 
into that part of America to 
which Spain laid claim. Their 

lUEEN ELIZABETH. cfforts wcrc dircctcd chiefly to 




ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 



21 



discovering a northwest passage to Asia, since they re- 
garded America as only a barrier between Europe and 
Asia. 

During the latter part of the sixteenth century, however, 
conditions changed. In 1567 the Netherlands revolted 
against the rule of Spain, and for forty years carried on 
war with that countrj^ In this war, which was partly re- 
ligious, England was on the side of the Netherlands. Thus 
Spain had to contend with two 
countries at once, and found the 
great struggle a constant drain 
upon her strength. During these 
forty years of warring Spain re- 
ceived blows from which she never 
recovered. The " Invincible Ar- 
mada," her mighty Defeat of the 
fleet of war vessels,^ Spanish Armada. 

met with crushing defeat at the 
hands of English seamen (1588). 
From that date England's naval 
power was on the in- 



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SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND AUTOGRAPH. 



crease. 

17. English Sea- 
rovers and Explorers. — 
After 1570 the English 
did not confine them- 
selves to the northern ocean but explored in waters that 
Spain claimed as hers alone. English ships, manned by 
fearless sea-captains ready to do and dare anything for old 
England and their queen, began to sail in every direction. 
As soon as it became clear that for carr^ang on her wars 
Spain depended largely on the gold and silver^ coming 
from the mines of Mexico and Peru, there was a fresh 



*The Invincible Armada consisted of 130 warships carrying 2,500 cannon anrl 
about 30,000 men. Philip II., the Spanish king, expected to humble England with, 
this fleet. 

' It has been estimated that the gold and silver Spain got from America would 
be now valued at five thousand million dollars. 



22 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH AKMADA. 



motive for English voyages to the New World. To cut o9 
the supply of these metals bold sea-captains like Drake and 
Hawkins scoured the sea in search of Spanish vessels. They 
cruised about the coasts, burning and plundering Spanish 
fleets and settlements, and thus did very great injury to 
Spain and her colonies in South America and INIexico. 

i8. Sir Walter Raleigh's i Attempt to Colonize Amer- 
ica (1584-1587). — In 1578, ten years before the Invincible Ar- 

1 Sir "Walter Raleigh, born in 1562, was in his own time rightly called the 
" Great Englishman," for he ranked high as historian, navigator, soldier, and 
statesman. In 1579, when only seventeen years old, he fought on the side of the 
Huguenots in the religious wars in France. He is said to have won the admiration 
of Queen Elizabeth by a simple act of gallantry. Meeting her one day as she was 
walking across a muddy street, he spread his cloak in her pathway for her to walk 
upon. From that time the queen took him into her court as a favorite. So en- 
tirely did he win her favor that she made him a knight. 

In 1588 Raleigh commanded one of the vessels in the English fleet that de- 
feated the " Spanish Armada." Later he was thrown into the Tower of London on 
an unproved charge of treason. After remaining twelve years in the Tower he 
was beheaded (1618). Just as he was about to lay his head upon the block he felt 
the keen edge of the axe and said, " This is a sharp medicine, but a sound cure for 
all diseases." 



ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 



23 



mada sailed for England, a scheme was laid to plant on 
the coast of America an English settlement, or military 
post, from which attacks might be made upon sir Humphrey 
Spanish fleets. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the onberfs scheme. 
author of the scheme, failed, but the idea of making a settle- 
ment in America had found a lodging-place in the English 
mind. 

A little later Sir Walter Raleigh determined upon an- 
other effort. He saw that America's greatest wealth did 
not consist in gold and silver, but in the 
opportunities it offered for the growth of 
a great people. He earnestly desired to 
plant an English commonwealth in Amer- 
ica, and he had the honor of making the 
first English settlement. After obtaining 
a patent from the queen, he ^^.^^^^ ^^„^^ 3„ 

sent out in 1584 two vessels exploring party 

to make explorations. The *« '^'■■g'"'^- 
explorers returned with glowing ac- 
counts of the new land and its people, 
and Queen Elizabeth was so delighted 
with the reports of the new country 
that she called it Virginia in honor of 
herself, the " Virgin Queen." 

In 1585 Raleigh sent out one hundred 
colonists, who landed on Roanoke Island, 
bright with hope. As soon as the ships 
sailed back to England the unfitness of 
the colonists for their new trials became apparent. Like 
all who had come before them they failed because of their 
thirst for gold. Instead of building homes Raleigh's first coi- 
and trying to cultivate the soil, they gave ony fails, 
themselves up to searching for gold and silver. Moreover, 
they showed so little wisdom in dealing with the Indians 
that the latter became bitter enemies, eager to destroy the 
white strangers. The natural result of the experiment was 
failure. Fortunately for them Drake, who was returning 
from one of his cruising expeditions, happened along and 




PHILIPPE II., KING OF SPAIN, 
1527-1598. 



24 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



carried the colonists back to England. The expedition 
was not wholly fruitless, however, lor they took back to 
England on their return two products which were evidence 




AN INDIAN VILLAGE AT ROANOKE. 
From an old print. 



of the real wealth and promise of the new country. These 
products were tobacco and the common potato. 

Raleigh did not lose hope. Two years later he made 
a second attempt. He sent out a much larger number of 
settlers, among whom were women and children. The new 



ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 



25 




ENGLISH EXPLORERS BARTERING WITH INDIANS FOR LAND. 



settlement was made at Roanoke under the leadership ot 
Governor White. He was soon compelled to return to 
England for supplies, where he found all the Raleigh's second 
people astir in preparation for the attack colony fails, 
about to be made by the Spanish Armada. As every man 
was needed to fight the coming enemy, three years passed 
before Governor White sailed again for Roanoke. Not 
one of the colonists was ever found. 

Raleigh sent out several expeditions in search of the lost 
colony, but finally gave up hope of finding it or of plant- 
ing anoiher. He had spent what was equiv- Raleigh's lost 
alent to more than a million dollars of our colony. 
presenr money Although nothing remained to be seen in 
return for this vast expenditure of money, Raleigh's work 
was not a failure, for his efforts had suggested to England 
that the "real wealth of America lay in the opportunity it 
afforded for planting colonies which in time would become 
the foundation of a new English nation. 

19. England's Need of America. — There was special 
need at this time for such an opportunity to relieve the 
crowded industrial conditions at home. The great demand 
for wool by Flemish weavers made wool-growing very 



26 HISTORY OF THE UNITED SIATES 

profitable in England. Therefore, English landowners en- 
gaged largely in raising sheep instead of cultivating the 
Large numbers of ^oil. The result was that but one man was 
men thrown out of now required to watch sheep where formerly 
work in England, j-j^^j^y j^^^j j-jeg^ needed to raise wheat and 

barley. Large numbers of men were thrown out of work, 
and there was great distress among the laboring classes. 
The closing of the monasteries by Henry VIII., a few 
decades earlier, had had a similar effect, and the return ot 
soldiers from European wars increased the difficulty. What 
to do with this large body of the unemployed was a trying 
problem. America seemed to furnish a solution, and to 
America men eagerly turned for help in the hour of Eng- 
land's need. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. As the defeat of the " Invincible Armada " by England is a great 

landmark in history, 1588 is another date you should know with 
certainty. You will notice that this defeat, which had a large influ- 
ence upon colonization in America, occurred about one hundred years 
after 1492. You will notice, also, that Raleigh's attempts to plant 
colonies took place only a short time before 1588. 

2. If you will learn important dates like 1492 and 1588 and group about 

them others of less importance, you will remember your history much 
better. 

3. Why can you say that Raleigh's work in America was not a failure ? 

Make a chart outline of the most important events for the first hun- 
dred years after the discovery of America by Columbus. 

4. You can easily make a review outline from the topics in the three 

chapters now studied. Do it. It would be well for you to read the 
life of Sir Walter Raleigh and also Scott's Kenilworth. 

NOTES 

Sir Francis Drake (1577).— Sir Francis Drake was one of England's 
famous navigators and admirals. In 1577 he set sail from England with 
five vessels ; in 1580 he returned with but one. In the meantime he had 
doubled the Cape of Good Hope, as Magellan's men had done sixty years 
before, and sailed entirely around the world. He was the first English sea- 
captain to accomplish this great undertaking. 

Bartholomew Gosnold (1602).— In 1602, the same year in which Ra- 
leigh sent out his final expedition in search of the lost colony at Roanoke, 



ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD 



27 



Bartholomew Gosnold set sail from England. He had with him twenty- 
three men, eleven of whom were to remain in America to make a settle- 
ment. Reaching the coast of Massachusetts, he sailed around Cape Cod, 
which he so named on account of the abundance of cod fish near its coast. 
Then steering his course southward, he entered Buzzard's Bay and landed 
on an island which he called Elizabeth, in honor of the Queen of England. 
On his return homeward the eleven men, who were expected to remain and 
make a settlement, insisted upon returning with him. But Gosnold's inter- 
est in America bore fruit, for it kept alive the interests of other Englishmen 
in colonizing the New World, 




QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SIGNATURE. 



CHAPTER IV 

THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND (1607-1689) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, HI.; 
Wright's Ciiildren's Stories in American History; Drake's Maicing of Virginia 
and tlie Middle Colonies; Richardson's History of Our Country; Coffin's Old 
Times in the Colonies; Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion; Andrews's 
United States, I. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbors; Fisher's 
Colonial Era; Eggleston's Pocahontas and Powhatan; Bancroft's United 
States, I.; Eggleston's The Begmners of a Nation; Doyle's English Colonies; 
Lodge's Short History of the English Colonies in America; Thwaites's The 
Colonies; Cooke's Virginia; Browne's Maryland; Wilson's A History of the 
American People, I. 

FICTION: Johnston's Prisoners of Hope; Johnston's To Have and to 
Hold. 

20. London and Plymouth Companies. — Raleigh as- 
signed his interests to a number of merchants and capital- 
ists, who received a charter from King James in 1606 and 
formed two companies for the purpose of colonizing Amer- 
_ ^ y* ica. One of these companies was 
^ ^j *^ located in London, and was called 

/ ffCl/YnX/S^^^ the London Company. The other 
f J was located in Plymouth, and was 

^"^ called the Plymouth Company.' 

SIGNATURE OF JAMES I. t'i r ' , ^i 1 ' J 

1 he former was to occupy the land 
between 34 degrees and 38 degrees north latitude, extending 
from Cape Fear to the mouth of the Potomac Riyer; the 
latter, between 41 degrees and 45 degrees, extending from 
the mouth of the Hudson River to New Brunswick. By a 

• The Plymouth Company sent out to the Kennebec the following year a settle- 
oient which proved a failure. No further attempt was made by this company, 

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charter granted in 1609, the Pacific Ocean was made the 
western boundary of Virginia. The area lying between 
these two belts, 38 degrees to 41 degrees, might be occu- 
pied by either compan}' provided it came no nearer than 
one hundred miles to a settlement made by the other. 

The most notable provision of the charter was that the 
colonists, as citizens in America, should have the same 
rights and privileges as belonged to citizens of England. 
It will be well to bear this great principle of the charter 
in mind when we stud}^ later 
the causes of the American 
Revolution. T-^^,,^,t^,^„j 

In addition to the common store- 

the charter,"""^"- 
the emigrants received 
from King James and the 
London Company strict or- 
ders about what should be 
done in Virginia. One of 
these orders was very un- 
wise and almost ruined the 
colony. It was as follows : 
for five years after settle- 
ment no one was to have 
any land of his own ; all 
were to work together and 
put the products of their 
labor into a common store- 
house, out of which pro- 
vision was to be made for clothing and feeding the colonists. 
21. Settlement of Jamestown (1607.) — On New Year's 
day, 1607, the first colony, consisting of one hundred and 
five men, set sail from London. About half of these men 
were gentlemen, whose aim, like that of previous settlers, 
was to make their fortunes in the New World and then re- 
turn home. The other half consisted mostly of mechanics 
and tradesmen. There were no farmers and no women in the 
new colony, for the colonists did not come to make homey 




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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



and settle down to earning their living by patient labor. 
Their aim was to find gold as the Spaniards had done in 
Peru and Mexico. Such men were not the right material 
to make a successful colony, as soon appeared after they 
had reached Virginia. In May they sailed up the James 
River and made a settlement. This they called Jamestown, 
in honor of King James, from whom they received their 
charter. Being for the most part a lazy, shiftless set, they 
did very little to prepare for the future. They were so 

slow that by the time they vs^ere 
settled it was too late for the 
The settlers and Spring planting. 

their sufferings. SoOU their prOVl- 

sions began to fail, and famine, 
along with the fever which seized 
them in the warm climate, rapidly 
thinned their ranks. Sometimes 
there were hardly enough well 
persons to bury the dead. In 
about four months half their num- 
ber had died, and the rest were 
discouraged. During these weary 
months of suffering some of the 
settlers lived in miserable dwell- 
ings made of boughs of trees or 
old sails, and some dug holes in 
the ground for shelter. 
22. The Services of Smith. — But for one courageous 
man, John Smith, they would probably have perished. He 
so managed the Indians as to secure food enough to pre- 
serve the lives of the wretched colonists. Two years later 
more colonists joined them, but the new-comers were as un- 
fit as those who came first. During this time John Smith 
not only kept the colony from ruin but found opportunity 
to do some valuable exploring. While on one of these ex- 
peditions he sailed, in search of the Pacific, up the Chick- 
ahominy River,* where he was captured by the Indians and 

' North America at this time was supposed to be a narrow strip of land. 




RUINS OF OLD CHURCH AT 
JAMESTOWN. 



THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 



3^ 



Suffering Colo* 
of famine and 



taken before their chief, Powhatan. Smith tells a thrilling 
story* of the saving- of his lite by Powhatan's young daugh,. 
ter, Pocahontas. However much truth there may be in 
the romantic Incident, Pocahontas herself is an attractive 
character, and her relation to the colonists is full of in- 
terest.' 

23. Smith Returns to England ; the 
nists (1609-1610). — After two more years 
hardships, five hundred additional 
colonists came over. It was the old 
story over again. Paupers, crim- 
inals, and otherwise worthless men 
made up the greater part of this 
wretched company. About this 
time the colonists suffered a severe 
loss, also, for Smith, having been 
wounded by the accidental dis- 
charge of a gun, was obliged to re- 
turn to England. The colony was 
thus left without a leader. At once 
the Indians, whom Smith had man- 
aged with great skill, began to rob captain john smith. 

5 As Smith in his efforts to prevent capture had k>"ed two Indian warriors, 
Powhatan decided that he must be put to death. In the meantime Smith had won 
the warm friendship of Pocahontas, a kind-hearted girl about ten years old. This 
little friend saved his life. For the Indians, having bound Smith hand and foot 
and laid his head upon some stones, were gathered about their captive to see him 
put to death. Then a warrior raised his club, but before it could fall upon Smith's 
head, Pocahontas threw her arms about the prisoner's neck and begged her father 
not to kill him. Powhatan's heart being touched,. Smith was released and allowed 
to return to Jamestown. Although this story has been discredited by some his- 
torians, there is pretty good evidence for its truth. Later, Pocahontas carried food 
to the starving settlers at Jamestown, and gave Smith warning of an Indian plot 
to kill him. 

A young Englishman, John Rolfe, fell in love with Pocahontas and married her. 
He took her to England, where she was treated with great kindness. Just as she 
was on the point of returning to America she died, leaving a son who became a 
man of influence in Virginia. John Randolph, of Roanoke (Va.), was one of her 
descendants. 

* According to his own romantic account, John Smith had many thrilling advent- 
ures before he went to Virginia. Running away from his home in England, while 




32 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

and plunder the settlers, and famine and disease aided the 
work of destruction. The famine became so severe that 
"The starving the colonists ate the bodies of their own dead. 
ume." Every day the numbers were thinned by 

ieath, and at the close of that dreadful winter (1609-1610), 
long known as " the starving time,*' barely sixty of the five 
fiundred were left alive. Lord Delaware, the newly ap- 
pointed governor, came in June, 1610, just in time to pre- 
vent the miserable remnant from sailing away to England.. 
On account of ill-health he could not remain long in the 
colony, and left Sir Thomas Dale in charge of affairs. 

24. Dale's Great Reform : He Establishes Individual 
Ownership of Land and Goods (1611-1616). — Dale was, 
like Smith, a vigorous and able ruler. He quickly saw that 
he must be extremely severe in governing the lawless men 
in the colony. He not only flogged the unruly but in- 
flicted the severest kind of punishment upon those who 
Dale's severe Said an3'thing against his mode of governing. 
measures. fjg eveu Went SO far as to burn some of the 

most rebellious, and in one case he sentenced to death by 
starvation a man who had stolen food. Of course these 
oppressive measures made Dale unpopular, but a stern 
ruler was just what was needed to put the colony on a firm 
footing. Its future soon began to look hopeful. 

Perhaps Dale's wisest act was the abolition of the sys- 
tem of a common storehouse. This had been one of the 
Dale abolishes greatest cvils of the colony. The settler had 
the system of the ^o land of his own and had to put the prod- 

Common store- ^ r 

iiouse. ucts of his labor into a common stock which 

all shared alike. It was a foolish system. The idlers, 

yet a boy, he went to Holland and became a soldier. From Holland he wandered 
to other parts of Europe, and in course of time fought against the Turks, three of 
whom he slew in single combat. After being captured and enslaved by the Turks 
he made his escape, and in 1604 returned to England, at the age of twenty-five, in 
time to join the movement for planting a settlement in Virginia. On his return to 
England in 1609 he sailed to New England and made a map of much of its coast. 
In addition to an account of his own life, he wrote several books on America. He 
«t: a man of immense courage and energy, and doubtless saved the Jamestowo 
c lonv liom ruin. 



THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 33 

knowing- they would be fed and clothed whether they 
worked or not, willingly let the industrious ones support 
them. As a result, thirty or forty energetic men had been 
supporting four or five times as many lazy, good-for-noth- 
ing men. Dale's great reform consisted in giving every 
man his own plot of ground. After the owner had turned 
into the common stock two and one-half barrels of corn, the 
remainder of his crop was his own. Under the new law 
the idle were compelled to work, and the thrifty were en- 
couraged to produce all they could by their labor. 

25. Tobacco the Main Source of Wealth. — About the 
time that this working spirit began to direct the colonists, 
they found that raising tobacco was immensely profitable. 
The soil and climate of Virginia specially fitting it for grow- 
ing tobacco, after 1616 this product was the principal source 
of wealth. Now that the colonists could have iheir own 
land and could make money by raising tobacco, tney were 
ready to work with a will. Farmers in England were glad 
to come to Virginia, and the success of the colony was no 
longer doubtful. 

26. The Second Great Reform : Self-government 
(1619). — Up to 1619 the people had little or no voice in their 
government. This state of things they did not like, for 
they had been accustomed in England to sending represent- 
atives to their governing body. Parliament. In 1619, there- 
fore, they were granted a new charter, which provided 
for a representative assembly consisting of two delegates 
from each of the eleven settlements. As these settlements 
were called boroughs, the assembly was known as the 
House of Burgesses. The new government The new gov- 
consisted of a governor, council, and assem- ernment. 
bly. This threefold government was modelled after the 
English form * and furnished later a basis for our own State 
and national governments. The private ownership of land 
and the culture of tobacco were two great inducements to 

' The English Government consists of the King, House of Lords, and House of 
Commons. The Cabinet, and not the King, is the real executive in England. ThS; 
two Houses constitute what is known as Parliament. 



34 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



emigration. Now that the people had a voice in making 
their own laws and levying their own taxes, Englishmen 
flocked to Virginia. Within a year after the people began 
to govern themselves, the population increased from 600 to 

4,000. With the coming 
of women about that 
time family life found a 
place in Virginia, and 
the people became pros- 
perous and contented. 

27. Great Need of 
Labor ; Labor Supply. — 
A very different class of 
men now came to Vir- 
ginia. Men with families 
and capital were ready 
to plant homes where 
returns for labor were 
so promising. The great 
need was for laborers, 
and to supply this need 
indented servants in 
large numbers were 
brought over. At first 
these were poor boys 
TOBACCO-PLANT. a u d g i r 1 s who were 

bound to service until 
they became of age. Then adult servants, required to 
serve a term of years to pay for their passage, were sent. 
White servants There were also kidnappers in England 
sent to Virginia, whosc spccial duty it was to procure men 
for service in Virginia. 

But all these sources of labor did not suppl}' Virginia's 
demand ; for it frequently happened that the indented ser- 
The first cargo vaut, wheu free, himself became a landowner 
of negro slaves. j^pj required laborers. Naturally, then, the 
slave-trader sought this inviting market, and in 1619 
landed the first cargo of negro slaves in Virginia. At that 




THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 



35 



time able-bodied negroes could be bought on the coast of 

Guinea for a few shillings apiece. These negroes were 

packed so closely for sailing that a vessel would bring 

hundreds of them over in a single voyage. Reaching Vir« 

ginia they could be sold for about the price of a good horse. 

The profits were immense both to the slave-trader and the 

slave-owner. What the tobacco grower needed was an 

abundance of cheap labor, a need which negro slavery 

supplied. Tobacco, 

therefore, was large- Ik^^^M^^''^ 

ly responsible for 

the introduction of 

negro slavery into 

Virginia. 

28. Tobacco Es- 
tablishes Rural Life. 
— It was found that 
tobacco quickly ex- 
hausted the soil. 
This led to taking 
up much new land 
as soon as the old 
was worn out. 



La 



rofe 



plantations 




were the result. 
Each planter tried 
to secure a planta- 
tion on one of the 
many rivers. He 
could then have his 
own wharf, where 
he could ship his 
tobacco and receive 
in exchange manu- 
factured goods from England. Under such a system,, 
where each planter held thousands of acres of land, 
no large town could grow up, and life was wholly 
rural. 



A WILD DASH FOR LIFE. 
An incident of the early slave trade. 



36 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

20. Berkeley and the People. — In 1660 after the over- 
throw of the commonwealth (see par. 35), Charles II. as- 
cended the throne of England, and Sir William Berkeley for 
a second time^ became governor in Virginia. Governor 
Berkeley cared very little for the rights and wishes of the 
people. He was trying to rule in America as his despotic 
king was ruling in England. Hence in 1660 there began, 
between the people on the one side and the king's party 
headed by Berkeley on the other, a struggle that grew more 
and more bitter until it ended in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. 
As this rebellion is an event of some importance, we may 
well notice how it came about. We shall see in the chain 
of events some of the causes of the American Revolution 
which occurred one hundred years later. 

30. Bacon Leads an Uprising of the People (1676). — 
Charles II., early in his reign, decided to enforce the Naviga- 
Tho Naviiration tion Laws as a means of increasing his revenue. 
L«w8. These laws wer very severe upon the tobacco 

trade of Virginia. They required that the planters should 
send their tobacco in English vessels and to none but Eng- 
lish ports. They required also that the planters should buy 
in England all the European goods they might need, and 
that these goods should be brought over in English vessels. 
In other words, the planter had to sell his tobacco and buy 
his manufactured goods at prices set by English merchants. 
This nearly ruined the leading industry of the planters, and 
they became discouraged and exasperated. In 1670 they 
received almost nothing for their tobacco, and paid high 
prices for goods manufactured in England. 

At the same time the Virginia Assembly no longer rep- 
resented the wishes of the people, but the tyrannical ideas 
Tyranny of oi Berkeley. Having found in 1660 a set of 

Berkeley. men ^ that suitcd his views, Berkeley for six- 

teen years kept these men in office, without an election by 

* Berkeley was governor from 1642-1651. 

* Between 1650 and 1660, when the Puritans were in control in England, hundreds 
of the Stuart followers, called cavaliers, came to Virginia (see par. 103). Many of 
these cavaliers became planters of large influence and naturally supported Berkeley. 



THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 37 

the people, by adjourning the assembly from year to year. 
Popular rights were thus despised. Moreover, suffrage 
was taken from all except land-owners and " housekeepers/' 
All these things were bad enough, but in 1673 the king 
did something far worse. He actually gave away Virginia 
to two of his favorites for thirty-one years. This action 
made the colonists uncertain about the titles to their land 
and aroused them to a high pitch of indignation. When a 
little later the lives of the settlers were threatened by 
attacks from the Indians and Berkeley refused to send 
troops against them, the people were ready 

, ^ ^ , Ti- XT .u • 1 T3 Bacon's Rebellion. 

for open rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon, a young 
man of wealth and influence and a leader among the peo- 
ple, sought a commission from the governor to march 
against the Indians, but the governor, fearing a revolt, 
refused to give it. Without the commission, therefore. 
Bacon led his troops against the Indians and routed 
them. The governor declared him a rebel and traitor. 
Civil war followed. Governor Berkeley was driven out of 
Jamestown, and the town was burned by owners of property 
in order to prevent his coming back. But Bacon suddenly 
died of fever, and Berkeley returned to take revenge by 
putting to death more than twenty of Bacon's leading 
followers. Not pleased with Berkeley's management of 
affairs, the king summoned him to England where, dis- 
appointed and heart-broken at the king's rebuke, he soon 
afterward died. Bacon's Rebellion showed that the 40,000 
people in Virginia loved liberty well enough to shed their 
blood in its defence. 

We have shortly to study settlers of a very different 
type, — the New England Pilgrims and Puritans, — but before 
doing so we must glance at the fortunes of the Catholics in 
Maryland. 

31. Lord Baltimore and the Catholics Settle Maryland 
(1634). — At the time the Puritans^ were coming over to 
America on account of religious persecution in England, 
the Catholics also were being badly treated because they 

' See par. 40. 



38 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



were unwilling to conform to the English church. Lord 
Baltimore, a prominent Catholic, wishing to secure freedom 
of worship for English Catholics, obtained from Charles I., 
who was his personal friend, a charter granting him the 
land lying north and east of the Potomac River and on 
both sides of the Chesapeake Bay. Lord Baltimore died 
before the charter was issued, and it was transferred to his 
son. The latter made a settlement in 1634 near the mouth 

of the Potomac River, at St. 
Mary's, and named his colony 
Maryland in honor of the queen, 
Henrietta Maria. Before proceed- 
ing to build houses for themselves 
the ■ colonists bought the land of 
the Indians, and paid for it with 
axes, hoes, and cloth. Their re- 
lations with the Indians were, with 
rare exceptions, most friendly. 

32. Lord Baltimore's Proprie- 
tary Rights.^ — The charter granted 
The liberal char- to Lord Baltimore 
ter. was extremely lib- 

era'. The king made him propri- 
etor, requiring, as a token of his 
alllegiance to the crown, two Indian arrows yearly and one- 
fifth of all the gold and silver. Lord Baltimore had almost 
the powers of a king in the new colony. He could call 
together an assembly of the people's representatives, whose 
laws were in force as soon as he signed them, the king's 
assent -not being required. The proprietor could coin 
money, establish at his will courts of law and pardon crim- 
inals ; and these proprietary rights were to remain with 
Lord Baltimore's descendants. Thus we see that he had 
almost as much power in Maryland as King Charles had 
in England. 

Besides, the Maryland charter contained a remarkable 

' Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were the only Proprietary colonies at 
the time of the Rv.-volution. See par. iii. 




OfeORGE CALVERT (LORD BAL 
TIMOivE). 



THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 



39 




A MARYLAND SHILLING. 



provision denying the right of the English government to 
tax the colonists within the province. The colonists were 
to enjoy all the rights of freeborn Englishmen in the mother 
country, and no taxes could be levied without being voted 
by the people's representatives in their colonial legislature. 

33. Disputes About Boundaries and Religion. — The 
Virginia colonists were greatly dissatisfied on account of 
the king's grant of land to Lord Baltimore, because the 
same land, they claimed, 
had already been granted 
to them. This dispute 
lied to fighting and blood- 
shed, but the king finally 
decided the question in 
favor of Lord Baltimore. 
Much later, after the set- 
tlement of Pennsylvania, 
there was a dispute also about the boundary between that 
colony and Maryland. After a long time two nason and Dix- 
surveyors, Mason and Dixon, established the ""'^ ''"e. 
boundary since known as Mason and Dixon's line (1763- 
1767). 

In the early days of the colony every settler was allowed 
to worship as he pleased — provided he worshipped in a Chris- 
tian church ; all were equally protected under the laws. But 
later, during Cromwell's rule in England, the Protestants,* 
getting control of the government, began to persecute the 
Catholics, and serious trouble followed.. 

34. Prosperity of the People. — But in spite of many 
disputes about boundaries and religion the colony pros- 
pered. The land was fertile, the climate delightful, and the 
colonists could make their own laws. As in Virpfinia, life 
was almost wholly rural during the seven- i^urai life of the 
teenth century. The numerous rivers, creeks, people. 

and inlets made communication so easy that towns, or cen- 
tres for collecting and distributing articles of trade, were un- 
necessary. Ships could bring whatever the planter needed 

• Protestants were always more numerous in the colony than Catholics. 



i6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

to his door, and carry away in exchange the products of the 
plantation, — tobacco and Indian corn. Like Virginia, Mary- 
land derived much wealth from growing tobacco, which 
was for a long time the staple product of the two colonies. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. What was the most notable provision of the charter granted by James 

I. to the London Company? What bad results followed the estab- 
lishment of the common storehouse ? What did John Smith do for 
the Virginia colony ? Tell all you can about his character. 

2. Imagine yourself in Virginia during these early years, and give an 

account of your life there. Impersonating Pocahontas, speak in the 
first person of your relations to the whites. Compare the work of 
Smith and Dale. 

3. Do not be satisfied until you understand clearly the two great reforms. 

4. Study the relation of soil and climate to tobacco, and of tobacco to 

plantation life and to negro slavery. 

5. What was Berkeley's attitude toward the plain people ? How did the 

Navigation Laws bear heavily upon the Virginia planters ? In 
what way was Berkeley tyrannical? Write a simple outline of the 
events which led to an uprising of the people under Bacon in 1676 
What were the results of this uprising ? Contrast Bacon and Berke- 
ley, and show why you like or dislike either of them. 

6. Subject for debate : Reso.ved, that Virginia owed a greater debt to 

John Smith than to Governor Dale. 

7. Why did Lord Baltimore wish to plant a colony in the New World? 

What singular powers did the king confer upon Lord Baltimore as 
proprietor of Maryland ? Be sure that you know what a proprietor 
was. 

8. What remarkable provision did the Maryland charter contain ? Note 

the important clause in the Maryland charter about " no taxation 
without representation." What was Mason and Dixon's Line ? In 
what respect was the life of the Maryland colonists like that of the 
settlers of Virginia? If you can see the relation of cause and effect 
between events, history at once becomes full of meaning and life. 
In looking for such relation, you will find it a great help to bring to 
your recitation at least one written question on every lesson. 

9. The account of Bacon's Rebellion, as told in Cooke's Virginia, is well 

worth reading. 



THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND 41 



NOTES 

North and South Carolina (1663-1729). — In 1663-65 Charles II., desir- 
ing to reward eight of his favorite noblemen, gave them a grant of all the 
land between the Atlantic and the Pacific and extending from Virginia to 
a point some distance below St. Augustine. Thus we see that this land, 
called Carolina, had eight proprietors, just as Maryland and Pennsylvania 
each had one. 

The form of government for Carolina was aristocratic. It was called 
the Grand Model, and is said to have been outlined by a great English 
philosopher, John Locke. A few noblemen were to own all the land, 
make the laws, and have all the powers of government in their hands. 
The people were, like the old Russian serfs, to be bought and sold with 
the land. Of course this absurd scheme was a failure. The people 
made so much trouble for the proprietors that the latter were glad to sell 
in 1729 all their rights to the king of England. The king then divided 
Carolina into North and South Carolina, appointing a governor for each 
colony and allowing the people in each to choose their own assembly. 

The population of the two colonies was composed of Englishmen, 
Huguenots, Germans, Scotch-Irish, and Scotch Highlanders. When the 
Revolution began. North Carolina was the fourth colony in population. 
The staple products of South Carolina were rice and indigo, and of North 
Carolina were tar, pitch, turpentine, and lumber. 

Georgia {ly 2,'^. — James Oglethorpe, a brave soldier and wealthy mem- 
ber of Parliament, knowing hov;^ eager the Spaniards were to destroy the 
weak English settlements in South Carolina, wished to plant a colony that 
should serve as a military outpost to ward off the Spanish attacks. But 
this was not his only motive. Being a man of warm sympathies, he de- 
sired to find relief for imprisoned debtors suffering in English prisons. 
He therefore secured from the king a grant of the land lying between the 
Savannah and the Altamaha Rivers and extending westward to the Pacific. 
In 1733 he planted at Savannah a colony in which freedom of worship was 
allowed to all but Catholics. For many years neither rum nor sbves 
could be imported. But, believing that these restrictions interfered with 
the prosperity of the colony,, the people finally secured their removal. At 
the end of twenty years the trustees, to whom the king had granted the 
original charter, gave it up. Georgia then became a royal colony and re- 
mained so until the Revolution. 



CHAPTER V 

THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN MASSACHUSETTS AND 
CONNECTICUT (162O-1689) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, I. and II.; 
Drake's Maicing of New England; Coffin's Old Times in tlie Colonies; 
Wright's Children's Stories in American History; Winsor's Narrative and 
Critical History, III.; Eggleston's Household History; Andrews's United 
States. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Fisher's Colonial Era; Doyle's English Colonies; 
Dodge's Shcrt History of the English Colonies in America; Thwaites's The 
Colonies; Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair; Hale's Story of Massachusetts; 
Fiske's Beginnings of New England; Abbott's Captain MylesStandish; Earle's 
Child Life in Colonial Days; Earle's Home Life in Colonial Days; Drake's On 
Plymouth Rock; Drake's Making of New England. 

FICTION: Stowe's Mayflower; Austin's Standish of Standish, Betty Alden, 
A Nameless INobieman, Dr. Le Baron and His Daughters; Cogswell's Regicides. 

POETRY: Longfellow's Courtship of Myles Standish. 



35. England Under the 
Stuarts (1603-1649 and 1660- 
1688). — We cannot understand 
who the Pilgrims and Puri- 



^i\M tans were, why they left their 
homes in England, and what 
they did after they came to 
America, unless we know 
something of English history 
from 1603 to 1689. With the 
exception of eleven years 
(1649-1660) the Stuart kings ^ 
reigned in England during 

'James I. (1603-1625), Charles I. (1625-1649), Charles II. (1660-1685), 
James TI. (1685-1688). 

42 




A PIKITAN. 



THE PILGRIMS .\ND PURITANS 



43 



this period. These men were oppressive rulers and aroused 

the opposition of many of the best people in England. 

When James I. ascended the throne he seemed The tyrannical 

to think that all England and its people were Stuarts. 

his personal property. He claimed that he ruled by divine 

right, which was another 

way of saying that his will 

was law and that the people 

had no rights which he was 

bound to respect. 

Accordingly, there at 
once began a struggle be- 
tween the throne and the 
people, who were repre- 
sented by Parliament. The 
great majority of the peo- 
ple claimed that they could 
not lawfully be taxed with- 
out their consent ; in other 

words, that no n^ taxation with- 
taxes could be out representa- 

levied unless *'''"• 
voted by the people's rep- 
resentatives in Parliament. 
The Stuarts tried to plan 
various ways of raising 
money without asking Parliament to vote it. 
very difficult. 

For eleven years (1629-1640) Charles I. ruled England 
without Parliament, and he was so arbitrary that he brought 
on the war which ended in the loss not only of his crown 
but of his life (1649). The Commonwealth followed (1649- 
1660), England being ruled by Oliver Cromwell and later 
by his son Richard. Oliver Cromwell became even more 
autocratic than Charles I. had been. 

After the Restoration Charles II., son of Charles I., 
reigned till 1685, when he was succeeded by his brother, 
James II. The latter was so despotic that the people rose 




OLIVER CROMWELL. 



But this was 



44 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

xigainst him in the revolution of 1688 and drove him out 
of England. It will greatly help us to understand Berkeley 
James II. driven i'l Virginia and Andros in New England, if 
<roin England. ^yg remember that these men were trying to 
rule in America as their royal masters were ruling in 
England. 

James I. was determined to make every one conform to 
the Established Church in England. But there were many 
The Church of people who did not like its forms and cere- 
Engiand and the mouics and wishcd to modify them. They 
Puritans. w^cre Called Puritans because, it was said, they 

wished to purify the Church. The Puritans wished to re- 
main in the Church and reform it. Another party wished to 
leave the Established Church, or separate themselves from 
it, and were therefore known as Separatists or 
Independents. They not only disliked the 
forms and ceremonies of the English Church, but they also 
disapproved of church-government by bishops. They 
wished to have a church in which the people only should 
rule. Such a self-governing church, where each congrega. 
tion could elect its minister and manage its own affairs with, 
out interference from king or bishop, afterward became 
ki'own as Congregational. 

^6. Pilgrims Migrate to America (1620). — In the early 
pai t of the reign of James I. a number of people in the 
village of Scrooby, a small village in Nottinghamshire, under- 
took to form such a church. But they were regarded as 
The Pilgrims es- rcbcls and wcrc hunted down, and some of 
cape to Holland, them wcrc thrown into prison. At last, in 
1608, they escaped to Holland, where they were allowed to 
remain in peace and to worship as they pleased. 

But they were not satisfied to settle permanentl}^ in Hol- 
land, because they did not wish their children when grown 
up to intermarry with the Dutch. They wished to make 
homes in a new land and there establish a free government 
and their own religion. After remaining in Holland twelve 
years, therefore, they decided to go to America, in order to 
establish a self-governing community and bring up their 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



45 



children to be liberty-loving and God-fearing men and 
women. By reason of their wanderings these people were 
called Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were poor, Their aims aaa 
but they were men of strong will and noble character, 
purpose. They tried to get a charter from the king, but 
he refused to give it. He led them to believe, however, 




EKGIAXDand HOLLATfD. 



THE M.-K.Ca. 



that he would not interfere with their project if they did 
not make themselves troublesome to him. 

37. Voyage and First ^A^inter. — After getting money on 
hard terms they started^ over from Plymouth, England, in 
the Mayflower and the Speedwell. On account of a leak the 
Speedwell was obliged to return, and the Mayflower^ with 
about one hundred people on board, sailed for America. 

' The Pilgrims sailed in July, 1620, from Delftshaven, the Port of Leyden, 
Holland, in the Speedwell for Southampton, England, where the i^ajyf<?w<rr awaited 
them. 



4b 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




After a stormy voyage they anchored about the end of 
November, 1620, on the northern shore of Cape Cod. As 
this place was not suitable for a settlement, they sailed 

across the bay to a good 
harbor and made their fi- 
nal landing at Plymouth 
December 21, 1620. The 
suffering during the first 
winter was severe, and 
before spring half their 
number were dead. But 
when spring came they 
had no disposition to re- 
turn to England. Weak 
THE .y-n'F,ou;R. as they were in numbers 

From a model in the StnUlnoHian Institution. aud pOSSCSSioUS, tllCy 

were strong in manly purpose and brave enough to face 
any danger that threatened their little settlement. 

38. The Covenant, Democracy, and the Church. — Before 
landing they signed, in the cabin of tlie Mayflozvcr, a cove- 
nant in which they agreed to make and support such laws 
as should seem for the best interests of all. John Carver was 
chosen governor. The laws were made ^n town-meetings, 
in which every man could vote. The Pilgrims at Plymouth 
believed that the people should rule ; they planted democ- 
racy in their church and state. Sc^ne years later,^ after 

population had increased, this pure democracy 
was obliged to give place to representative 
government. Governor Carver died during the first 
winter, and William Bradford was chosen to succeed him. 
Elder Brewster was the minister, and Captain Myles Stan 
dish was chosen military leader. These stout-hearted lead 
ers well represented the character of the Plymouth settlers. 

39. Relations with the Indians. — For a better defence 
against the Indians the Pilgrims organized their able-bodied 

'In 1630 there were only 300 settlers. By 1639 representative government 
became necessary, and in 1643 the population numbered 3,000. This increase was 
due to surrounding settlements which began to spring up about 1630. 



Pilgrim leaders. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



47 




A CHEST WHICH CAME OVER IN THE 

MAYFLOM-'ER. 



men into ^mall companies who took turns in guarding the 

settlement against surprises by the Indians. Fortunately 

for the Plymouth settlers, so many of the Indians of that 

region had recently died 

from a pestilence that the 

remaining natives were not 

troublesome. Massasoit, 

chief of the Wampanoag 

Indians, visited Plymouth 

in the spring of 162 1, and 

Governor Bradford made a 

treaty of peace with him 

that lasted fifty years.^ 

40. The Puritans and the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
(1628-1630). — Encouraged by the successes of the Pilgrims, 
many Puritans began to follow their example. In 1628 
some of the leaders of the Puritan party in England, men of 
wealth and influence, formed a trading company. They 
bought of the Plymouth Company a tract of land along the 
Massachusetts coast, extending between the Charles and 
Merrimac Rivers and to within three miles beyond each, 
and sent out men to occupy it. Endicott was their leader, 
and they settled at Salem. 

The following year the same trading company, with in- 
creased numbers, obtained a charter from the king, incor- 
porating it as the Governor and Company of Massachusetts 
Ba3\ Very likely Charles I. was quite willing to be rid of 
these liberty-loving, unruly subjects. At any rate he 
granted them a charter which was very liberal in its terms. 
It allowed the freemen of the company to choose their own 
governor, his deputy, and a council of eighteen ^^^ Puritans se- 
assistants, and to manage in every way their cure a liberal 
own affairs. It did not restrict its holders in ^^^^^^^' 
the place of meeting. Of course this was a distinct advan- 
tage to the promoters of the new enterprise. Accordingly, 

' Later the Narragansett chief, Canonicus, sent to Plymouth a rattlesnake skin 
containing a bundle of arrows; Governor Bradford removed the arrows and, filling 
the skin with powder and shot, returned it to the Indians. This hint was sufficient. 



48 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




in 1629, when the king' was ruling with a high hand and 
setting at naught the will of Parliament by levying taxes 
himself and by throwing into prison those who refused to 
pay such illegal taxes, these Puritans decided upon the 
bold step of removing with their chartered rights to New 
England, where they might find a 
refuge from the tyranny of the king 
and build up a government accord- 
ing to their own ideas. 

In 1630, under the leadership ot 
John Winthrop, about 1,000 persons, 
witn horses, cattle, and stores of 
The Puritan set- vaHous kiuds. Sailed for 
tiements In 1630. M assach u sc tts. This 
new colony, called the Massachusetts 
Bay Colony, made settlements at 
Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, 
and Watertown, John Win- 
throp was made the first gov- 
ernor. Like the Plymouth 
colony they established a gov- 
ernment democratic in form, 
but unlike the Plymouth col- 
ony they were men of wealth 
and culture. Some of them were relatives of the greatest 
men of the day. They were men of wisdom and energy 
also, and might have made great names ^ for themselves in 
England. It must have been a strong motive that led 
them to sacrifice so much. We shall see how tenaciously 
they held to the rights which those sacrifices had bought. 

41. The New England Township. — Unlike ordinary 
colonists, the Puritans came in large communities with their 
plans of government fully matured. They were not Sepa- 
ratists in England as the Pilgrims had been, hut the church 
they established in Massachusetts was independent and Con- 
gregational. Each congregation formed a settlement, and 

' Stoughton, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts (1692-1 701), said, "God 
sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness." 




didiuLs 




MYLF.S STANDISH. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



49 



'~\.'?». 




PILGRIM TYPES. 



each settlement consti- 
tuted a township and 
parish whose boundaries 
were one and the same, 
and usually included an 
area of from forty to 
sixty square miles. Each 
parish had one church 
or meeting-house, where 

all business, The meeting-house 
church or and the village. 

civil, was transacted.^ 
Later the people erected 
a separate building for 
their town meetings and ^^^^ 
called it a town-house 
or town-hall. The meet- 
ing house and the town- 
house were the centres 

about which clustered the villages. In order to meet the 
more easily foi' worship the settlers built their houses close 
together. Perhaps another reason was to secure a better 
defence against the Indians. 

42. Church and State. — The charter permitted all free- 
men to vote, but the Puritans came to New England to 
establish and preserve what was most dear to them, their 
own religious and political freedom — in no sense religious 
toleration. When the first elections were held, puritans aiiow 
therefore, it was enacted that no one should none but church 
be admitted a freeman and so .have a right to ™*™ *" 
vote who was not a member of one of. the churches of the 
colony. The union of church and state was thus complete. 

At first the freemen met with the governor, his deputy, 
and council of assistants to make such laws as pertained to 
the general welfare of the several towns. But :after u cime, 
when the towns and rreemen bad so multiplied that it be- 

' As early as 1631 it was decided that none but church members should be 
admitted as freemen. 



50 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

came inconvenient for them all to meet, each town began 
to send representatives, or deputies, to the legislature, or 
General Court (1634), just as each settlement or borough in 
Virginia sent representatives to the House of Burgesses 

^ J"^ ;^V--^ 



■^' 



i'Xj^i Qi/>nJi4^ 



MYLES STANDISH's BILL OF EXPENSES AFTER HIS VISIT TO THE INDIANS. 

43. Massachusetts Gets Control of the Connecticut 
Valley (1633-1636). — Some time before the Massachusetts 
Bay Company had made settlements on the New England 
coast the Dutch had become established in New York (then 
New Amsterdam) on the Hudson, where they were engaged 
in the fur trade with the Indians. Claiming the land as far 
east as the Connecticut River, they built a small fort at 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



51 



Hartford in the interest of the fur trade. In 1633 Massa- 
chusetts sent up the Connecticut a vessel, which in spite of 
Dutch protests sailed to Windsor, six miles The Dutch at 
above Hartford. There the Massachusetts Hartford. 
men built a house for trading with the Indians. Two years 
later John Winthrop, by building a fort called Saybrook 
at the mouth of the river, cut off 
the Dutch fort at Hartford from 
the support of New Amsterdam. 
The way was now open for Mas- 
sachusetts to send settlers into 
the valley of the Connecticut. 

44. Massachusetts Settles the 
Connecticut Valley (1635-1636). — 
In 1635 3,000 more settlers came 
from England to Massachusetts, 
where, some of them maintained, 
there was not enough good land 
for the many people now in that 
colony. The complaint of 
the lack of land came 
mainly from three of the 
eight Massachusetts towns. 
On hearing of the fertile 
soil of the Connecticut val- 
ley a great part of the 
people of these three towns 

decided to make settlements there. When they migrated 
to Connecticut they settled the three towns of Hartford, 
Wethersfield, and Windsor. The principal settlement at 
settlement was made at Hartford in June, Hartford. 
1636. Under the leadership of their minister, Thomas 
Hooker, one hundred men, women, and children came 
overland from Cambridge (then Newtown), driving their 
cattle before them. It took them two weeks to make the 
toilsome journey through the woods to their new home. 

45. Thomas Hooker and Democracy. — There is not 
much doubt that the principal reason why these three towns 




GOV. JOHN WINTHROP. 



52 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

wished to move to Connecticut was political. Many peo- 
ple did not approve of the Puritan idea held in Massachusetts 
of allowing onl}^ church members to vote. Nor did they 
like to have the clerg}'^ take a controlling part in political 
life. Thomas Hooker, the minister at Cambridge, was the 
leader of this movement in favor of a more democratic sys- 
tem. John Winthrop and other Puritan leaders believed 
in government by only a part of the people. They did not 
believe that all the people were wise enough to govern 
well. But Thomas Hooker, like Abraham Lincoln, believed 
in government " of the people, by the people, and for the 
people." 

46. The Connecticut Constitution (1639). — In 1639 the 
three towns of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor united 
under one government. The constitution which they 
adopted was the first written constitution in all history 
upon which a government was built up. Another interest- 
ing fact about this constitution is that in it no mention w^as 
made either of the king or of the English company^ hold- 
Government by ing a patent of the land. This constitution 
the people. ^y^g made by the people, in the interests of the 

people, and showed that Thomas Hooker and his followers 
had faith in the ability of the people to manage their own 
affairs.^ In the Connecticut colony all freemen, whether 
church members or not, could vote. 

The New Haven colony was founded in 1638 by a 
small body of men under the leadership of John Daven- 
New Haven col- port and Thcophilus Eaton. They based 
o"^- their laws strictly upon the Bible, and like the 

Massachusetts Bay colonists allowed none but church 
members to vote. 

After the Restoration Connecticut, in order to confirm 

' In 1630 the Council for New England granted the patent to the Earl of War- 
wick. In 1631 he assigned it to Lord Say-and-Sele and others. 

' Alexander Johnston says: " It is on the banks of the Connecticut, under the 
mighty preaching of Thomas Hooker, and in the constitution to which he gave life 
if not form, that we draw the first breath of that atmosphere which is now so famil< 
iar to us. The birthplace of American democracy is Hartford " 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



her rights, thought it best to secure, if possible, a charter 
from the king. Governor Winthrop was sent to England, 
and by his tact and pleasing address succeeded in obtain- 
The Connecticut i^g ^ charter (1662) for the territory which 
charter. included Hartford, New Haven, and all the 

other settlements^ that had been made in what is now Con- 
necticut. This charter was so liberal and satisfied the peo. 
pie so well that it afterward became. the State Constitution 

and remained in force 
till 1818. 

47. Religious Intoler* 
ance in Massachusetts 
Leads to the Settlement 
of Rhode Island (1636). — 
We must remember thai 
the Puritans did not 
come to New England to 
establish religious free- 
dom, but to form a state 
where they should have 
freedom for their own 
religion. The}' thought 
their own safety, cer- 
tainly their own welfare^ 
depended upon having 
none but members of the 
church take any part in 
government. But while 
none but church members could vote, all were obliged to 
pay taxes for the support of the church and were com- 
Roger witiiams pcllcd to attend its services. Roger Will- 
and his views. iams, a young man of pure spirit and strong 
conviction, who had become pastor of a church at Salem 
(1633), declared this system to be wrong. He asserted 
that no man should be obliged to pay taxes to support 
any church, nor should he be punished by the magistrates 
for not attending church services. His belief was that 

' Saybrofk was purchased by the Connecticut colony in 1644. 




FIRST CHURCH AT SALEM. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 55 

every man should settle all such matters with his con- 
science and his God. Williams stirred up the Puritans 
by declaring, also, that they had no just claim to the land 
they lived on. The land was theirs because the king had 
granted it to the Massachusetts Bay Company. But the 
land, Williams said, had never become the king's property; 
it belonged to the Indians; and the king, therefore, could 
not grant to anybody what was not his own. 

This strange way of looking at the authority of the 
magistrates and at property rights alarmed the Puritans, 
especially as the English government was already none too 
friendly. They very much feared that the English king, 
hearing of the disturbance which these new teachings had 
caused in the colony, would hasten to take away the 
charter. Hence they looked upon Roger Williams as a 
dangerous person and drove him out of the colony.' He 
went to Rhode Islan J and made a settlement „ „,.„, 

Roger Williams 

at Providence (1636). Rhode Island became driven out of 
a refuge for all who were seeking for a place Massachusetts, 
to worship freely in accordance with their chosen faith. 

Another disturber of the public peace was Mrs. Anne 
Hutchinson, an able woman who had recently come from 
England. She gave religious lectures which were opposed 
in their doctrines to those of the regular clergy, and caused 
great excitement. Although some of the leading men were 
included among her followers she was banished from the 
colony. 

48. The New England Confederacy (1643). — The 
Dutch, angry at the loss of their fur trade in the Connecti- 
cut valley, had twice tried to drive the English away. The 
French in Canada were tr^'ing to push their claims to the 

' As soon as Roger Williams learned that the Puritan magistrates had decided 
to send him back to England, he made his escape in midwinter to the wilderness. 
Here he wandered about for fourteen weeks, through deep snows, sometimes sleep- 
ing in hollow trees at night and sometimes getting food from the Indians. Early 
in the following summer, with five friends from Salem, he crossed the Narragansett 
Bay in search of a new home. Canonicus, chief of the Narragansetts, gave him a 
tract of land where he made a settlement, calling it Providence, in token of God's 
care for him during his time of trouble. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




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south, and the Indians, either as allies of the French or the 
Dutch or on their own account, threatened on all sides. 
Enemies of the Connecticut, therefore, proposed to Massa- 
New England col- chusctts a uniou of the New England colonies 
""''*• for mutual defence. In 1643 articles were 

agreed upon at Boston by representatives from INIassachu. 
setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven, uniting the 
colonies in a confederation for " mutual safet}'^ and welfare." 

This confederacy was important because it taught the 
colonies how to unite and made stronger their feeling of 
independence. It prepared the way for the Albany Con- 
gress, the Continental Congress, and the union of the Slates 
m 1789. 

49. The Quakers in Ne;v England. — In 1656 the Massa- 
chusetts colonists were greatly alarmed to learn of the 
arrival of two Quakers. These persons were at once 
thrown into prison until the ship in which they had come 
should sail, and boards were nailed on their prison windows 
Punishment of the to prevent them from communicating with 
Quakers. people outside. But in spite of this harsh 

treatment the Quakers continued to come. Fined, im- 
prisoned, whipped without mercy, mutilated, and driven 
from the colony on penalty of death, they still persevered. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



57 




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Not until four of them were hanged did a reaction in their 
favor set in. 

We are led to ask why the Quakers persisted in coming 
to Massachusetts in the face of such deadly opposition, 
and why the Puritans were so horrified to have them in 
the colony. The first question is quickly answered. The 
Quakers were zealous to make converts and were more than 
willing to suffer for their teachings. In answering the 
second it may be said that the Quakers held Peculiar ideas of 
in small esteem both the political and religious the Quakers. 
system of the Puritans. The ideal of the Quakers was a 
separation of church and state. They were guided by 
what they called the "inner light," or conscience. This 
was to them a supreme authority to be obeyed in spite of 
law or punishment. As they did not approve the Puritan 
system they refused to take the oath of allegiance, to pay 
taxes, or do military service. 

To the Puritans the success of Quakerism meant the 
overthrow of Puritanism. The Puritans said, ^^ the Puritans 
"We have come over to New England to es- persecuted the 
tablish a church and state after our own ideal. Q"^''*"- 
If the Quakers and others do not like our system let them 
go elsewhere, as we did when we left England." 



58 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



50. Trouble with England and Loss of the Massa- 
chusetts Charter (1684), — During- the first thirty years of 
its existence, Massachusetts, left pretty much alone by 
inde ndent atti- England, had improved her opportunities to 
tude of Massa- build up a Strong and independent govern- 
chusetts. ment. The storm}'- reign of Charles I. had 

not permitted any oversight on the part of England. The 
commonwealth which succeeded (see par. 35), being Puritan 

in its sympathies, allowed the 
colony to follow its own course. 
But the conditions which had 
favored her growth thus far were 
giving way. After tlie Restora- 
tion (1660), it was not to be ex- 
pected that Charles II. would 
overlook the growing importance 
and independent attitude of the 
Massachusetts colony. That 
would be too much to expect of 
any king, especially of a Stuart 
king. Moreover, Massachusetts 
had used her power in such a 
way as to make many enemies. 
Her custom of excluding from 
the colony people like Roger Williams and Anne Hutch- 
inson, whose religious views differed from her own, had 
Enemies of Massa- driven some men of influence back to England. 
chusetts. Others who were not members of the Congre- 

gational Church had of their accord returned to England, 
because in Massachusetts they could get no voice in the 
government. As a result, these men cherished only ill-will 
toward the colony which had caused them so much trouble. 
All these aggrieved persons found means of carrying 
into the king's court mischievous reports of the doings of 
the colony. For instance, it was rumored that Massachu- 
setts had raised money without the king's sanction, and had 
given a hearty welcome to two of the judges who had sen- 
tenced Charles I. to death, and who afterward had escaped 




SIR EDMUND ANDKOS. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 



59 



to Massachusetts. Furthermore, it was said that Massachu- 
setts had broken the Navigation Laws, which forbade the 
colonies to receive foreign vessels into their complaints 
ports or to trade with any except English against Massa* 
ports or ports belonging to England. This ^husetts. 
political sin was especially grievous to English merchants, 
and robbed the king of his 
revenue. 

The time had therefore 
arrived for England to find 
means of humbling her am- 
bitious colonists. But it 
was not until after a long 
struggle that the charter 
was finally annulled in 1684. 
The Government and Com- 
pany of Massachusetts then 
passed out of existence. 

51. Andres, the Stuart 
Governor in New England 
(1686-1689). — Charles II. 
died and James II. suc- 
ceeded him. In 1686 he 
appointed Sir Edmund An- 
dros governor of all New 
England and, later, of New 
York and New Jersey also. Andros truly represented the 
despotic will of his royal master. He was especially tyran- 
nical in Massachusetts, because this colony Tyranny of An- 
had taken such an independent attitude tow- dros in Massa- 
ard England. He at once declared that inas- ^^^usetts. 
much as the colonists had lost their charter they could no 
longer lay any legal claim to their lands. They could hold 
them only by paying money as a quit-rent to the king. The 
privilege of making their own laws and levying their own 
taxes in town meetinsfs and General Court ^ was also taken 




PROVISCE RULED OYEB 
BY SIR EDJIUND ANDROS, 1688. 

50 100 200 300 

Scale of Miles. 



' General Court was the name for the colonial legislature. The term is still 
applied to the Massachusetts legislature. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



away. Andros and a council of his own choosing now 
made the laws and levied the taxes. The colonists rebelled, 
but the king stood back of the governor, and resistance was 
useless. Freedom of the press was no longer allowed, and 
men were illegally thrown into prison. Indeed, the condi- 
tion of the people was little short of slave.*-y. 




THE CHARTER OAK. 



In 1687 Andros went to Hartford to secure the Connect- 
icut charter. The conference was so long and heated that 
it continued till dark, when suddenly the candles were blown 
Andros fails to se- 0"^ and, as the traditional story goes, the 
cure the Connect!- charter was suatchcd from the table and hid- 
cut c ar er. ^^^ ^^ ^^ oak-trcc ^ afterward historic as the 

" Charter Oak." But the colonists were obliged to give 
up their charter government and to acknowleage Andros 
as Governor. 

' In 1856 the noble old tree, which stood in what is now Charter Oak Place, 
Hartford, was blown down. A marble tablet marks the spot. 



THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 6l 

Andros, however, pressed his tyranny too far. As soon 
as the people heard that King James II. was driven from 
the throne of England, they seized Andros, threw him into 
prison, and later sent him back to England. Andros in 
Massachusetts and Berkeley in Virginia were both intensely 
hated and bitterly remembered.^ 

52. Industries and Trade in New England. — As we 
have seen, soil and climate favored the growth of tobacco 
on large plantations in Virginia, where life was rural. This 
was not true in New England. There the soil was rocky, 
and the climate was too cold for the growth of tobacco. 
The people lived mostly in towns, usually not far from the 
coast. Near the towns were the farms of those who tilled 
the soil. 

In Virginia the many sluggish rivers made it easy for 
vessels to reach the wharves of the plantations. In hilly 
New England the swift-running streams were not so navi- 
gable, but were useful for turning the wheels of mills and 
factories. Naturally, manufacturing on a small scale began 
early in New England. In addition to saw-mills and weav- 
ing-mills the New Englanders had factories for making 
salt, gunpowder, and glass-ware. Good fishing off the coast 
led to a considerable export trade in dried fish. The exten- 
sive forests furnished lumber for ship-building and com- 
merce. At an early day New England started the ship, 
building industry, for which, in later New England history, 
the people became famous. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. In what •ways -were the Stuart kings tyrannical ? Name two or three 

results of their struggles with the people of England. 

2. Who were the Puritans ? the Pilgrims ? Why did the Pilgrims wish 

to emigrate to America ? 

3. Explain how the settlers at Plymouth first made their laws. What 

were their relations with the Indians ? 

' It is only fair to say that Andros was personally a far more honorable man 
than Berkeley. 



02 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

4. State the leading provisions of the charter ^vhich the Puritans ob- 
tained from the king. What was the township ? Why would the 
Puritans allow none but church members to vote ? What form of 
government did they have ? 

5. Name points 01 difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans. 

Which do you like the better, the Pilgrims or the Puritans? Give 
your reasons. 

6. How did the Massachusetts people get control of the Connecticut 

valley ? How did Thomas Hooker and John Winthrop differ in their 
ideas of government ? Tell all you can about the Connecticut Con- 
stitution. 

7. Why did the Puritans send Roger Williams out of their colony ? 

Subject for debate : Resolved, that the Puritans were right in their 
treatment of Roger Williams. 

8. What were the causes and results of the New England Confeder- 

acy ? Do you think that if you had been a Puritan you would have 
joined in persecuting the Quakers? Give your reasons. 

9. What enemies did Massachusetts make ? What complaints did they 

raise against the colony ? Compare the rule of Andros in Massa- 
chusetts with that of Berkeley in Virginia. In what respects w^ere 
these governors like the Stuart kings ? 

CO. How did the life and occupations of the people in Virginia differ from 
those of the people in Massachusetts ? 

CI. Read Austin's Standish of Standish and Longfellow's Courtship of 
Miles Standish. 

NOTES 

New Hampshiye (1623). — Two years after the Pilgrims landed, the 
Council of Plymouth granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John 
Mason the territory between the IVIerrimac and the Kennebec Rivers. In 
1623 fishing stations were begun at Dover and Portsmouth. Later, 
Mason and Gorges divided the territory between them. Mason took the 
part west of the Piscataqua, which he named New Hampshire after his 
own county of Hampshire in England ; Gorges took the part east of the 
same river, naming it Maine. The proprietors left the early settlers to do 
pretty much as they liked. Massachusetts claimed all the territory, but to 
make certain her claim bought out the heirs of Gorges (1677) for $6,000. 
Maine continued as a part of Massachusetts till 1820. New Hampshire re- 
mained for a long time under the protection of Massachusetts. After sever- 
ing connection with Massachusetts three times, New Hampshire became a 
Keparate royal colony in 1741, and so continued until the Revolution, 



CHAPTER VI 

THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK AND THE QUAKERS IN PENN- 
SYLVANIA (1609- 1 689) 

REFERENCES : Scribner's Popular History of the United States. II. and III.; 
Wright's Children's Stories in American History ; Drake's Making of Virginia 
and the Middle Colonies; Richardson's distory of Our Country; Morris's Half 
Hours with American History ; Andrews's United States, I. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Fisher's Colonial Era; Doyle's English Colonies; 
Lodge's Short History of the English Colonies in America ; Thwaites's The Col- 
onies; Bancroft's United States, I.; Winsor's Narrative and Critical History, III.; 
Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America; Buell's William Penn. 

FICTION: Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York. 

53. Henry Hudson Seeks the Northwest Passage 
(1609). — In 1609 Henry Hudson, an English navigator, was 
employed by the Dutch East India Company to sail in 
search of a short northwest passage to India. Holland was 
then one of the greatest commercial countries in the world, 
and, like the other great European powers, desired to find a 
shorter route for the trade that was making her people rich. 
Hudson crossed the Atlantic, and with a crew of twenty 
men, in the Half-moon, sailed up the river which now bears 
his name. He held the familiar belief of his time, that the 
East Indies could be reached by a short water-route through 
North America, which was supposed to be a narrow conti- 
nent. But after sailing as far as the present site of Albany 
he could go no farther, and gave up his plan of finding the 
East Indies by that route. Although he did not find a short 
passage to the Pacific, he discovered the Hudson River, 
tvhich was a great water-way for the Dutch fur traders 
7oming later. He also won. the good-will of the Indians. 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Hudson wins the 
good-will of the 
Indians for the 
Dutch. 



It was worth much to the Dutch that Hudson came to the 
Indians as a friend. The same year Champlain, a French 
explorer and trader, made deadly enemies of 
these same Indians, the Iroquois, who gave 
him great trouble and hindered the French 
in their work of exploration and colonization. 

54. Dutch Claims to New Netherland. — During the 
next few years Dutch traders continued to visit the region 

of the Hudson, and in 1615 the 
Dutch States-General gave a char- 
tcr to a company of merchants. In 
this charter the new country was 
named New Netherland. A small 
trading-house was erected on the 
present site of Albany, and a sim- 
ilar one was built on Manhattan 
Island at the mouth of the river. 

Real colonizing did not begin 
until 1623, when the West India 
Company, which had been char- 
tered two years before for pur- 
poses of settlement and trade, be- 
gan to send out colonists. Some 
of these settled on the Delaware, 
or South River, some on the Hudson, or North River, som-e 
on Long Island, and a few remained on Manhattan Island. 
The Dutch built Fort Orange, where Albany now stands. 
In 1626 Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, founded 
Dutch settlements Ncw Aiiistcrdam (uow Ncw York City) on 
and forts. Manhattan Island, which he bought from the 

Indians for trinkets worth twenty-four dollars. These early 
colonies opened a successful trade with the Indians, with 
whom they kept on good terms, but they did not cultivate 
the soil and, therefore, their settlements did not thrive. 

55. The Patroons. — To encourage emigration the 
States-General of Holland granted to the company a new 
charter by which the patroon system was established. This 
system permitted any member of the Dutch West India 




A DUTCH OFFICER OF THE 
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK 



65 




7—^7 1 \ \ ^ 

A GROUP OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DUTCHMEN. 

Company who would, within four years, bring- into the col 
ony fifty settlers, to own a landed estate with a water front 
of sixteen miles if on but one side of the Hudson, or of 
eight miles if on both sides. This great land-owner or 
patroon might extend his estate inland as far Power and duties 
as he thought desirable. In all cases the land of the patroons. 
was to be fairly bought of the Indians. These patroons 
exercised almost absolute power over their tenants. In fact 
the patroons resembled feudal lords, and the tenants resem- 
bled the vassals of feudal times. It should be noted that 
the patroons were each required to suppo'"t a minister and 
a school teacher, in order that religious education should 
not suffer. This wise provision indicated the sturdy, whole- 
some character of the Dutch people. 

56. The Dutch Win the Friendship of the Iroquois 
Indians and thus Secure an Extensive Fur Trade. — By 
treating the Iroquois justly the Dutch won the warm 
friendship of these powerful Indians, who engaged in an 
extensive fur trade with them. By honest dealing the 
Dutch fur-traders avoided costly Indian wars, and easily 
secured all the furs coming through the hands of the Iro- 
quois from numerous tribes around the Great Lakes and 
between the Ohio and the Mississippi. The results of this 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



friendship were important: (i) Dutch commerce was en- 
riched; (2) the Iroquois received for their furs the fire- 
Results oi the arms which enabled them all the more suc- 
{r^uois Vr* Ihe ccssfully to prevent the French from getting 
Dutch. possession of New York ; (3) unwittingly the 

Dutch were doing the English a great favor, for after 
New Netherland passed into the hands of England, the 
Dutch remained along the Hudson as before, and helped 



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THE EARLIEST PICTURE OF NEW AMSTERDAM. 



to maintain the fur trade with the Iroquois, much to the 
advantage of England. 

57. New Netherland Under Dutch Governors ' (1623- 

1664). — There was less political freedom in New Netherland 

than in New England. The people could not 

The 8:overninent. i i • Y i i • 

make their own laws nor levy their own taxes. 
The town meeting, which was such a characteristic feature 
of New England life, had no existence here. Religious free- 
dom was all that the most liberal could desire. As Holland 
welcomed the Pilgrims when driven by persecution from 

'New Netherland had four Dutch governors: Peter Minuit, Walter von Twil- 
ler, William Kieft, anfl Peter Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant was the only governoj 
worthy of the name. With great reluctance did he yield to the English. 



THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK 



07 



England, the Dutch in New Netherland welcomed the vic- 
tims of Puritan intolerance in New England. People from 
all parts of Europe were attracted to New The mixed popu- 
Netherland, and a very mixed population was '^"o"- 
the result. It was said that in 1643 eighteen languages 
were spoken in New Amsterdam. In such a mixed com- 
munity there could not be the same intense loyalty to the 
ruling power as if all 
the people had been of | 

one nation. 

58. New Netherland 
Becomes New^ York 
(1664).— The Dutch 
were now, as the Span- 
iards had been the cen- 
tury before, the great 
naval and commercial 
rivals of England. It 
was nat 



ural that 
England 

she Id be jealous of 
Dutch trade. The 
Dutch held the best 

harbor on the Atlantic coast and the best highway to 
the Indian fur trade in the interior. No other river 
equalled the Hudson in this respect; its advantages were 
superb. Moreover, the Dutch colonies separated the Eng- 
lish colonies north and south, and England, not foreseeing 
that the union of the English colonies could prove disas- 
trous to the mother country, conceived the idea that the 
intrusion of the Dutch was a great obstacle to their 
growth. 

Therefore, after allowing the Dutch to remain fifty years 
in the territory the}'- had settled, England suddenly brought 
forward her claim to the land by the discover^'^ of the Cab- 
ots. Accordingly, in 1664, while Holland and England were 
at peace, Charles II. sent over a fleet to attack the Dutch 



Why Eng-land 
wished to get 
control of New 
Netherland. 




HENRY Hudson's half moon on "jhe 

HUDSON, 



68 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

colony at New Amsterdam.^ Governor Stuyvesant made 
frantic appeals to the people to assist in warding off the at- 
The Dutch yield tack, but the Dutch wcrc outnumbered,^ and 
to the English. resistance was useless. Without a blow New 
Amsterdam fell into the hands of the English, and with it 
the whole of New Netherland. Charles II. gave the newly 
conquered territory to his brother, the Duke of York, and 
changed the name of both the colony and its capital to New 
York. 

Dutch colonization, like Spanish, failed, and for a similar 
reason. The Spaniards were allured by goM, the Dutch by 
Why the Dutch trade. They both lacked the colonizing in- 
'«"««'• stinct which puts home-making before vvealth- 

getting. Though the Dutch failed as a nation in colonizing 
America, their influence was indelibly impressed for good 
on the part of the country which they settled. 

59. New York Under English Governors. — New York 
prospered under English rule, but the people there were 
disappointed because they were not given as much political 
freedom as the English colonists enjoyed in New England. 
The feeling became so strong that in 1683 they were al- 
lowed an assembly elected by the freeholders, which could 
meet with the governor and council to make laws and levy 
taxes. 

In 1686, however, the Duke of York, having become 
king, took away this representative government, and two 
years later annexed New York to New England, under the 
rule of Andros.^ The later English governors were so ex- 
asperating and tyrannical, that a people's party arose in 
the colony. When in 1689 news came that James II. had 
been driven from the throne, the people of Ne\y York, like 

' Connecticut readily came forward to assist in defeatmg her old enemy in the 
Connecticut valley and on Long Island, where English settlers had come into col- 
lision with the Dutch. 

' At this time the population of New Amsterdam was about fifteen hundred, 
and of New Netherland about seven thousand. 

' Andros, while governor of New England, New York, and New Jersey (1686- 
1689), remained in New England. Nicholson represented him in New York as 
lieutenant-governor. 



THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK 



6q 




AN EARLY DUTCH MAN OF WAR. 
From a model in the Musee de Louvre, Paris. 



their New England neighbors, put aside the king's govern- 
ment and established one of their own. Their party was 
headed by Jacob Leisler, an energetic trades- Leisier leads an 
man without education or political experi- peopt^"^ againrt 
ence. He made many mistakes and aroused Andros. 
the opposition of his own party, but he managed to hold 
office for three years. The people finally appealed to the 
king (William III.), who sent over in 1691 a new governor. 
Leisler was tried for treason and hanged. With the new 
governor, the assembly was restored, and from this time 
the colony was governed in a constitutional way. 

60. The Quakers in England. — The direct cause of 
the settlement of Pennsylvania was the bitter persecution 



70 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



of the Quakers in England.' They had no respect for 
forms and ceremonies; they were extreme dissenters from 
the Established Church, and did not believe in paying 
taxes for its support; they would use no titles of honor to 
any man, not even the king; they counted it a sin to take 
oath even in a court of justice, or to pay taxes for war. 

6i. William Penn and the Quakers Settle Pennsyl- 
vania (1681). — William Penn was the most illustrious con- 
vert of the Quakers in the seven- 
teenth century. He was a young 
man of wealth, education, culture, 
and political promise. His father, 
Admiral Penn, had been active in 
bringing about the restoration of 
the Stuarts, and was therefore held 
in high esteem by King Charles II. 
and his court. Penn early cher- 
ished an idea of founding a settle- 
ment for the Quakers in America. 
He had taken a leading interest in 
a colony in West Jersey, where 
many Quakers had found a refuge.^ 
The colony was not altogether sat- 
isfactory, and he was led to obtain a grant of land from the 
king, in payment of a claim of $80,000 which he had inher- 
ited from his father. 

The king, always short of money, was glad to discharge 
his debt in this way. He granted Penn a large tract of 
land west of the Delaware River (1681}, and named it Penn- 
sylvania in honor of his friend, the admiral. Penn was 
made proprietor of the new colony, and by the terms of 
the charter, which was drawn by his own 

Penn becomes pro- ' • i i 

prietor of Penn- hand, the proprietor, with the consent of the 
6yivania. freemen, was to make all necessary laws. 

Having obtained the charter, Penn offered land on liberal 
terms, and promised the settlers a popular government, 

' At one time there were 4,000 Quakers in English prisons. 

'Some of the New England Quakers came here, and many came from England. 




WILLIAM PENN. 



THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK 



71 



f 



with justice to all regardless of religious belief. The people 
of his iaith throughout England responded with such en- 
thusiasm that he sent out a large colony. 

62. The Quakers Live in Peace with the Indians. — 
William Penn came to America in 1682, and in the follow- 
ing year he laid out 
the city of Philadel- 
phia on a tract of 
land lying between 
the Delaware and 
Schuylkill Rivers. 
Under the spread- 
ing branches of an 
elm-tree^ he made a 
treaty^ o^ peace 
with the Indians. 
By this treaty he 
paid them fairly for 
the land and made 
them presents. So 
honest were the 
Quaker colonists of 
Pennsylvania in all 
their dealings with 
the natives that for 
a long time the 
highest compliment 
an Indian could pay 
a white man was to liken him to Penn. They kept their 
treaty with them for sixty years. 

63. Penn's Liberal Government. — The government was 
very liberal. The proprietor named the governor, but the 

^ This tree was blown down in iSio. A monument marks the spot where it stood. 

^ Penn said to the Indians: " The friendship between you and me I will not 
compare to a chain, for that might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are 
the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts. We are all one 
flesh and blood." When the Indians handed to Penn the wampum belt of peace, 
they said: " We will live in love and peace with William Penn as long as the sun 
and the moon shall endure." 




72 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

people chose the members of the council and the assembly. 
Every tax-pa)''er and freeholder was to hav^e the right to 
vote. The first laws reflect the benevolence of Penn and 
his people. These laws provided that the Indians should 
be treated kindly ; that each child should be taught a trade ; 
that criminals in prison should be kept busy with some 
kind of work; and that all public officers should be pro- 
fessing Christians. 

64. Growth of Pennsylvania. — In spite of internal feuds, 
some slight and others serious, the colony continued to pros- 
per. The climate was good, the soil was fertile, and rivers 
offered easy communication. These natural advantages, 
together with the liberal spirit, the good laws, and the 
peaceful relations with the Indians, caused the settlement 
to grow rapidlv.* Colonists were not afraid to come where 
Mixed character of othcrs had Opened the way. Besides English 
the population, ^j^^ Swcdcs, there were many from Wales. 
Holland, and Germany. Industries were built up, and 
wealth increased with population. Thus Penn's " Holy Ex- 
periment" proved to be successful, and Pennsylvania took 
her place among the foremost of the original colonies.^ 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. Describe Hudson's attempt to find the Northwest passage to India. 

What advantage did he gain for the Dutch by winning the good- 
will of the Iroquois Indians ? How did Champlain make these same 
Indians deadly enemies of the French ? In what way did the friend- 
ship of these Indians to the Dutch aid the English later? Note the 
importance of the fur trade. 

2. Bear in mind the mixed population in New York and in Pennsylvania, 

for you can use this knowledge to a good purpose w^hen you study 
the Revolution. 

* In three years Philadelphia had gained more in population than New York 
had in a half century. Toward the close of the century Philadelphia was a " noble 
and beautiful " city, as a history of that time describes it, containing two thousand 
houses, most of them " stately," built of brick. 

* Although Penn's colony prospered, it caused him much anxiety and the loss 
of a large fortune. 



THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK 73 

3. Why did England wish to secure New Netherland ? What does the 

* series of years, 1609-1664, cover in the history of New Netherland? 

Why did Dutch colonization fail ? 

4. What was the condition of New York under the English governors ? 

What led to a popular uprising under the leadership of Leisler ? 

5. Find interesting facts about the following : The Quakers, William 
Per.1i, his charter, his liberal ideas of government in the new colony, 
and his relations with the Indians. Write five minutes on one of 
these. 

6. You began with 1492 : you have now reached 1689, about two cen- 
turies later. Learn these dates thoroughly : 1492,1588,1689. 1492- 
1898: observe that 1689 is almost half-way between the two. How 
many of the thirteen original colonies had been settled before 1689? 
Make out a chart with the following facts in separate columns? 
Name of colony, when settled, where settled, by w^hom settled. 

7. You have seen how the Spanish, the English, and the Dutch tried to 
establish colonies. In the " Notes " you will find an account of 
similar attempts made by the Swedes. 

8. It would be a good plan for you to make out a chronological chart, 
beginning with 1492 and ending with 1689, including dates of princi. 
pal events in three parallel lines, one for the Spanish, one for the 
English, and one for the Dutch. 



NOTES 

Kew Jersey (16 18). — As New Jersey was at first included in New 
Netherland, the Dutch erected, as early as 1618, a small fort at Bergen, 
on the west bank, of the Hudson River. When in 1664 New Netherland 
passed into the hands of the English, the Duke of York sold the land be- 
tween the Hudson River and the Delaware to his friends. Lord Berkeley 
and Sir George Carteret. He named the province New Jersey, after the 
island of Jersey, which Carteret had bravely defended for the king's father, 
Charles I., during the Civil War in England. The first permanent English 
settlement was made at Elizabethtown in 1665. As the people were 
allowed freedom of worship and a part in making the laws, a good class of 
settlers was attracted to New Jersey. The Indians were so kindly treated 
that they gave no trouble. 

In 1674 the province was divided into East and West Jersey, for many 
years known as " The Jerseys. " By 1682 both the Jerseys had been sold 
to a number of Quakers, among whom was William Penn. There were 
now so many proprietors that much confusion over land titles resulted. 
The proprietors therefore sold in 1702 all their claims to the English 
Crown. From that time the Jerseys were known as New Jersey and were 



74 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

united to New York. New Jersey and New York now had the same gov- 
ernor, but each province had its own assembly. In 1738 New Jersey was 
made a royal province, which it continued to be until the Revolution. 
Benjamin Franklin's son was the last royal governor. 

Delaware {\62,Z). — In 1638 a number of Swedes and Finlanders landed 
near the present site of Wilmington Delaware, and built a fort which they 
called Christina, in honor of their queen. Later, the Swedes made 
settlements along the Delaware River as far as the site of Philadelphia. 
Their colony they called New Sweden. But the Dutch claimed all this 
region as a part of New Netherland, and in 1655 they sailed up the Del- 
aware, captured all the Swedish forts, and made New Sweden a part of 
New Netherland. 

When in 1664 the English took New Netherland from the Dutch 
Delaware became an English possession. In 1682 William Penn, wishing' 
to secure a free outlet to the ocean, bought from the Duke of York this 
territory, then known as the " three lower counties on the Delaware.' 
Delaware then became a part of Pennsylvania. In 1703 the people ->i 
Delaware were allo\;ved a separate assembly . but they had the same ^ov« 
:rnor as Pennsylvania until the Revolution. 



CHAPTER VII 

LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, 1., II., III.? 
Drake's Making of New England; Drake's Making of the Great West; Wright's 
Children's Stories in American History; Morris's Half Hours with American His- 
tory, I. ; Richardson's History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Catlin's North American Indians; Chapin's Land of 
the Cliff Dwellers; Fiske's Discovery of America; Ellis's Red Man and White 
Man; Drake's Indian History for Young Folks; Parkman's Conspiracy of 
Pontiac; Hart's Colonial Children. 

POETRY: Longfellow's Hiawatha. 

65. The People Columbus Found in America. — When 
Columbus came to America he found a people very differ, 
ent from the Spaniards or other Europeans. As he believed 
he had reached the Indies he called these people Indians. 
They were alike in having high cheek-bones, black eyes, 
coarse black hair, and beardless laces. But with respect to 
their size, dress, houses, and manner of life there was as 
much difference as there was among people living in 
various countries of Europe. 

66. Division into Families of the Indians East of the 
Mississippi. — The Indians whom the French and English 
found living East of the Mississippi were divided into three 
great families. First, there were the Southern, or Maskoki, 
Indians, who were spread over the country extending from 
the Tennessee River to the Gulf of Mexico and from the 
Mississippi to the Atlantic. The most important tribes 
were the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and 
Seminoles. Secondly, there were the Iroquois Indians, 

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76 



fflSTORy OF THE UNITED STATES 











AN INDIAN CAMP. 



who included the Five Nations* in Central New York, the 
Tuscaroras in North Carolina, the Hurons north of Lake 
Erie, and the Eries south of it. Thirdly, all the other tribes 
spreading northward from the Tennessee and eastward 
from the Mississippi were Algonquins. 

67. Character. — The Indian was a true child of the forest. 
He had a wild love of liberty, which refused control by any 

* The Five Nations included the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and 
Senecas, who formed a loose confederacy. The Five Nations were very powerful 
Indians till their defeat by Frontenac in 1697. They firmly controlled the Mohawk 
River valley and prevented the French from using the best natural highways from 
Lake Erie to the Ohio. Their population at the time of their greatest strength was 
under 20,000. After the Tuscaroras from North Carolina joined them in 1715 
they were known as the Six Nations. 



LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 



77 



will except his own. He was cruel to his enemy and often 
tortured him or burned him alive. But the Indian was 
generous and kind. In the midst of famine he would cheer- 
fully share the last morsel with a fellow-sufferer, and in the 
hour of danger would lay down his life for a friend. 

68. Occupations. — The squaw did nearly all the work. 
She dug the soil with shells and pointed sticks, gathered 
the crops, dressed skins, dried meat, and made mocca- 
sins and various articles of clothing out of what the squaw 
the skins of animals. The Indian was first *•'•*• 
of all a warrior. His weapons were the war-club, the bow 
and arrow, and the tomahawk. A sharpened 
stone served for the blade of his tomahawk, 
and bone or flint pointed his arrows. He was also fond of 



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WAMPUM RECEIVED BY PENN FROM THE INDIANS. 

hunting and fishing, and to assist him in these occupations 
he made the canoe and the snow-shoe. 

69. The Canoe and the Snow-shoe. — In the fishing sea- 
son he sought the side of lake or stream, and he was always 
eager to go where game was thickest and where the scalps 
of his enemies could be taken in greatest numbers. The 
canoe was therefore a necessity. Before the whites came 
it was to him horse, steamboat, and railroad, all in one. 
In travelling on land he followed the trail of The canoes and 
the deer or the buffalo. But water-ways were the water-ways, 
so much easier that he travelled ten miles on water to one 
on land. Between the water-ways there were " carrying 
places," or portages, over which he had to carry the 

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78 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



canoe and all its load of fur and other goods. In other 
words, sometimes the canoe carried its owner and some. 

times the owner carried his ca- 
noe. It was therefore necessary 
that it should be both light and 
strong. Such was the birch- 
bark canoe, which was made by 
stripping off the bark of the 
birch in one piece and carefully 
fitting it over a light wooden 
frame. Another Indian inven^ 
tion of great use was the snow- 
shoe, which was three or four 
feet in length, curved and taper= 
ing, and enabled the wearer to 
go along easily on the surface 
of the snow at the rate of forty 
miles a day. 

70. Wampum. — Wampum 
consisted of small shells, or 
beads made from shells, perfor. 
ated and strung together, and 
often wrought into belts. The 
Indians used wampum for per- 
sonal adornment and also for 
more serious purposes, such as 
summoning the tribes to war, 
and recording treaties, laws, and 
speeches. Ten thousand beads 
have been knowni to be worked 
into a single war-belt four inches 
wide. The colors and the pat- 
terns of the belt varied with its 
purpose, peculiar signs and fig- 
ures enabling the Indian to 
remember certain parts of a 
speech or a treaty. This was 

INDIAN WHIP (quirt), WAR-CLUB, ^ i t i- 

AND HUNTING-ARROW. nccessarv because the indian 




LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 



79 



could not write. Apart from other uses it was valued also 
as money. 

71. Religion. — The Indian believed that all Indians, 
good and bad, would after this life go to the Happy Hunt- 
ing Grounds. This was his name for Heaven. The Happy Hunu 
Life there would be the same as life in this ing Grounds. 
world, but without pain or trouble of any kind. It is 




INDIAN SNOW-SHOES AND PAPPOOSE-CASE. 



thought that the practice of scalping enemies killed in bat- 
tle Avas associated with the belief that the loss of the scalp 
prevented the spirit from entering the Happy Hunting 
Grounds. The Indian would therefore risk almost any- 
thing to save the dead body of his chief or his friend from 
being scalped by the enemy. As in the Happy Hunting 
Grounds he v.'oul'^ need arms to defend himself, these and 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Other things of use in this life were buried with him for 
use in tlie other life. 

72. The Clan and the Tribe. — According to language 
and locality the Indians were separated into families, such 
as the Maskoki, Algonquin, and Iroquois. According to 
government the family was separated into distinct tribes, 
and again, by relationship more or less remote, the tribe 
was separated into clans. Each clan had its name, usually 





TOTEM OF THE FIVE NATIONS. 



TOTEM 01 ."HE I_:.IK_I£:. 



that of some bird, beast, or reptile, and the picture of this 

animal became the peculiar emblem or " to» 

tem " of the clan. The animal represented in 

the totem of each clan was supposed to favor and protect 

that clan and was sometimes tattooed on the breast. 

Every clan selected a sachem, or civil ruler, and at least 
one war-chief. The sachems exercised but little authority. 
Indian govern- They actcd as advisers and, when assembled 
ment democratic, together in tribal councils, freely discussed 
important questions. The Indian government was there- 
fore democratic, each warrior being to a large degree his 
own master. 

73. Communal Living, — The Indians knew Init little of 
real estate. The tril^es occupied the land but did not own 
it in the sense in which white men own land now. They had 



LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 



8i 



very little personal property except such objects as weap- 
ons, trinkets, and clothing, and held all- other property in 
common. Their architecture was adapted to their com- 
munal life. Interesting illustrations of this are to be found 
in the " Long Houses "of the Iroquois. These 
houses, made of wood and bark, were in some 
cases one hundred feet long, and would ac- 
commodate as many as twenty families. As a rule, each 
house was occupied by families of which the mothers were 
members of the same clan. Whatever these families obtained 



The " Long 
Houses " of tb0 
Iroquois. 





TOTEM OF THE SIOUX. 



TOTEM OF THE HURONS. 



by hunting or by the rude culture of the soil they owned in 
common, and all their food they kept in a common store- 
house. 

74. The Mound Builders. — Many thousands of mounds 
have been found in Ohio and in other parts of the United 
States. Some have the shape of birds, fishes, and reptiles ; 
some of the square, circle, and other mathematical figures. 
The Big Elephant Mound, a few miles below the mouth of 
the Wisconsin River, is 135 feet long; the Serpent Mound, 
in Ohio, is 1,000 feet long, with a gracefully curving body. 
These mounds have gateways, outlooks, and parallel lines, 
showing that they were probably used as for- 
tifications. Of late years very careful explorers 
have been at work among these mounds, opening many oi 
them and taking out relics. These relics include kettles. 



The mounds. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



pipes, axes, arrowheads, tools for weaving and spinning, 
and other things. They have been examined with the great- 
Reiics found In cst carc, becausc they help us to understand 
the mounds. what kind of people made and used them. At 

one time it was thought that the Mound Builders were a 
people of a very superior civilization, because of the artistic 

skill they showed in 
their sculptured relics. 
Accordingly, the Mound 
Builders were spoken of 
as a " lost race " that 
numbered many millions 
and constituted a mighty 
empire. 

The character of the 
mounds and of the relics 
found in them leaves no 

Mound Builders ^Oubt that 
probably Amerl- they WCrC 
canlndians the WOrk of 

various tribes, differing 
from each other quite as 
much as Indian tribes 
differ now, 1 he Chero- 
kees, who are known ♦^c 
have built mounds some 
time after the whites 
came to America, prob- 
ably built those found 
in the western part of North Carolina and the eastern 
part of Tennessee. It seems altogether probable that 
the Mound Builders were nothing more than American 
Indians, like those found by the English and the French 
colonists. 

75. Number of Indians. — There are at present about 
250,000 Indians in the United States. Very likely the num- 
ber is quite as large now as it was when the English and 
the French began to plant settlements. It has been thought 




CARVED riPKS FROM AN INDIAN MOUND. 



LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS 



»3 



that the coming of the whites prevented -the destruction of 
large numbers of Indians by war and famine. 

76. Influence of the Indians Upon the \A^hites. — The 
influence of the Indians upon the whites, especially from 
the time of the early settlements to the Revolution, was 
considerable. They often saved struggling settlers from 
starvation by furnishing them food, and they taught the 
whites how to cultivate Indian corn. But, as we shall see 
in later chapters of this book, the principal Indian wars 

influence of the Indians upon the whites was ^r^'uil'^ad^'nl 
through the numerous Indian wars, which tage of union, 
helped the colonists to know one another better, and taught 
them what they most needed to learn — the advantage of 
union. In fighting against a common danger the colonies 
were brought into closer sympathy with one another. Let 
us briefly refer to two of those wars, the Pequot War and 
King Philip's War, both of which were fought before the 
beginning of the Intercolonial Wars. 




BIG ELEPHANT MOUND, 



CHAPTER VIII 

EARLY INDIAN WARS 

77. The Pequot War (1637). — The leading cause of 
each of the Indian wars in New England was the same — 
the feeling on the part of the Indians that the whites were 
Leading cause of getting posscssion of the lands, and would 
early Indian wars, in time drive the Red Men away from their 
hunting grounds. The Indians did not at first understand 
that sales of land meant their giving it up entirely. But 
even when they understood the nature of land sales, they 
thought the whites had taken advantage of them. 

When the people from Massachusetts settled in Con-: 
necticut in 1636 they found themselves neighbors to a strong, 
ferocious tribe of Indians, called Pequots, living in the east- 
ern part of the State. These Indians attacked the little 
settlement of Wethersfield, where they killed a number of 
persons. Captain John Mason, with ninety men from the 
Captain Mason's ^owus of Hartford, Wcthcrsfield, and Wind, 
expedition against sor. Started in pursuit. The party came to 
the Pequots. anchoriH Narragausctt Bay about three weeks 

after leaving Hartford. Mason marched westward across 
Rhode Island, and at the end of two days halted the exjDe- 
dition just north of the present town of Stonington. Before 
daybreak next morning he and his men surprised the In- 
dian fort, and destroyed nearly all the Indians in it, con- 
sisting of from 400 to 600 men, women, and children. The 
war resulted in the destruction of the Pequot tribe, and so 
awed the Indians in that part of the country that there was 
no more trouble with them for about forty years. Then 
came King Philip's Wat, which lasted two years and was 
much more extensive than the Pequot War. 

84 



EARLY INDIAN WARS 



85 



78. King Philip's War (1675-1676). — King Philip, chief 
of the Wampanoags, a Rhode Island tribe, was a leader of 
much ability. He united the New England icing Philip's 
Indians from Maine to the Hudson River in purpose, 
a league whose aim was to destroy all the whites in New 
England. The war broke out in Swansea, Massachusetts, 




INDIANS CARRYING CANOES OVER A PORTAGE. 



*tnd spread through the towns in the southern and western 
parts of the State. Deerfield and Hadley were among the 
places pillaged and burned. The war was stubbornly 
fought, and finally ended with the death of King Philip, who 
was shot while trying to escape capture at Mount Hope 
(Bristol), Rhode Island, which was his home. Results of King 
The remnant of his tribe were either killed or Philip's War. 
sold into slavery, and the power of the New England In- 
dians was completely broken. The war was a severe strain 
upon the New England colonists. Six hundred of them 
were killed, and thirteen of their towns were destroved. It 

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86 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

cost the colonists a larc^e sum of money and imposed heavy 
burdens upon tliem in the way of taxation. 

But the Indians having the greatest intiueiice upon co- 
lonial development were the Iroquois. These we have 
already mentioned in tiieir relation to the Dutch, and we 
shall now speak of their immediate influence upon the 
French and the English colonies. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Why were the canoe and the snow-shoe of great value to the Indian ? 

What w^as his religious belief? Tell what you can about communal 
living; about the Mound Builders. 

2. Why did the absence of such animals as horses and oxen retard the 

progress of the Indians? Discuss the influence of the Indians upon 
the whites. 

3. What were the causes and results of the Pequot War ? of King 

Philip's War ? Impersonating King Philip, write an account of the 
wrongs you suffered at the hands of the whites. 

4. Subject for debate : Resolved, that the Indians have been unjustly 

treated by the white people. 
5 If you rightly study the facts about the Indians, you will be prepared 
to understand the Indian problem which the American people are 
now trying to solve. As in the case of all other problems of to-da/, 
we study the past that we may learn how to interpret the present. 
Even the Indian question has two sides. Read the first chapter of 
Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac ; also Longfellow's Hiawatha. 



CHAPTER IX 

FRENCH EXPLORATIONS 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, I. and II.; 
Wright's Ciiildren's Stories in American History; Drake's Making- of the Great 
West; Drake's Malcing of New England; Morris's Half Hours with American 
History ; Riciiardson's History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS : Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great 
West; Parkman's Pioneers of France in the New World; Winsor's Narrative 
and Critical History, IV.; Winsor's The Westward Movement; Bancroft's 
United States, II.; Hinsdale's Old Northwest; Hildreth's United States, II.; 
Thwaites's Father Marquette ; Wilson's A History of the American People, II. f 
Dix's Champlain. 

FICTION: Catherwood's Romance of Dollard; Catherwood's Story of 
Tonty. 

79. The French Discover and Explore the St. Law- 
rence. — By reason of the discoveries of Verrazano (1524) 
Krance laid claim to the Atlantic coast between Cape Fear, 
North Carolina, and Newfoundland. Ten cartier discover. 
years lat'^r Jacques Cartier discovered the St. the st. Lawrenco 
Lawrence and sailed up the river as far as an ('^^'*^' 
Indian village on the present site of Montreal. He returned 
in 1540 and in the name of King Francis I. took possession 
ot Canada, as the Indians called the country. Immediately 
attempts were made to colonize, but they were unsuccess- 
ful. In 1603 the French again attempted settlement in the 
region extending from New York harbor to Cape Breton, 
called Acadia,' and again they failed. 

But these failures only shed the greater lustre about the 
name of Samuel de Champlain, the " Father of New 
France." When he first penetrated the St. Lawrence val- 

' Acadia was afterward restricted in meaning to its present boundaries. 

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FRENCH SOLDIKRS OF THE TIME OF THE FREN'CH EXPLORATION. 

ley he was impressed with its great bcaiit}^ and its valu- 
able resources, for it was rich in forests and furs. Next 
Champiain makes to thc goM and silvcr, the fur trade furnished 
nent Frenc'h'"!! ^^^ ^^^st mcans of sccuring the coveted wealth 
tiement in Canada, whicli the Ncw World offered. Champiain 
was a man of culture and refinemLMit, earnest, patriotic, and 
religious. He wished to extendi the glory of France and 
the Catholic Church. Moreover, he saw that the St. Law- 
rence valley, and not Acadia, was the promising field for 
France in the New World. In 1608 he made the first per- 
manent French settlement in Canada, at Quebec. The fol- 
lowing year he discovered the lake which bears his name. 

80. Champiain and thc Iroquois. — It was a curious coin- 
cidence that two years utter the settlement of Jamestown 
Hudson should have sailed up the Hudson River and 
Champiain and Champiain should have explored Lake Cham- 
Henry Hudson. plain (1609). Thcsc two cvcnts had a large 
influence on American history. The Dutch on the Hudson 
and the Iroquois in the Mohawk River valley stood in the 
way of French success in America, The story containing 
the reasons for French failure is full of interest, and we will 
now begin to read it. 



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When Champlain settled at Quebec in 1608, he found 
that the neighboring tribes of Algonquin Indians were bit- 
ter enemies of the Mohawks, one of the Five Nations, or 
Iroquois, in New York. It was hard for him to keep out of 
their deadly feud, and he decided to take the side of the 
Algonquins because their lands were nearer to him. Ac- 
cordingly he joined them in a 
battle with the Mohawks near 
Ticonderoga, on Lake Cham- 
plain, and shot some of the 
latter with his gun. As the Mo- 
hawks had never before heard 

the report of a gun champlain makes 

they were overcome the iroquois ene- 

W i t h superstitious «"*««* the French. 

terror and defeated. The French- 
man enabled the Algonquins to 
triumph over the Mohawks, but 
that shot was fatal t the future 
success of the French in America. 
The Iroquois were from that day 
the unrelenting enemies of the French colonists, and did 
all they could to prevent them from carrying out their 
plans of exploration and trade. 

81. The French Reach the Mississippi Valley. — It is 
important to remember that this battle of Ticonderoga 
took place in 1609, when only a handful of Englishmen were 
at Jamestown. The French had control of the St. Law- 
rence, one of the three great water-ways to the interior of 
North America. If they could get control of The three great 
the Mississippi valley and the Hudson-Mo- water-ways, 
hawk River route they would hold the other two, and 
North America would be in their grasp. The distance 
from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi was not great. 
One route lay through Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, by 
portage into French Creek, through the Alleghany and Ohio 
Rivers into the Mississippi. Another lay through the same 
lakes into the Maumee, by portage into the Wabash, 




SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. 



go HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

and through the Ohio into the Mississippi. But the ever- 
watchful Iroquois, whose territory stretched along the 
The Iroquois force shorc of Lake Erie, blocked the way and 
I'lorgand'difncuit baffled the French here. The latter were 
route. obliged to seek a route farther north, which 

was much longer and more difficult. Slowly and patiently 
they worked their way up the Ottawa River into Georgian 
Bay, through Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, across into the 
Illinois River, and from there into the Mississippi. 

The Jesuit missionaries bore a large part in this toil- 
some work of exploration. These brave men were eager 
to Christianize the Indians. They built mission stations 
and in their zeal braved many dangers. Not only did they 
gain converts to their faith, but with rare intelligence they 
made important explorations and discoveries. It was one 
, , of their number, Marquette, who succeeded 

Important work of ^ ' 

the Jesuit mis- HI reachuig the Mississippi. Attended by 
fcionaries. JoHct, hc Sailed, in 1673, as far down the Mis- 

sissippi as the mouth of the Arkansas. This was two years 
before King Philip's War and three years before Bacon's 
Rebellion. 

82. La Salle Plants the Arms of France at the Mouth 
of the Mississippi. — But the most valuable explorations 
were made by the daring and tireless La Salle. He was an 
earnest Catholic, and was full of plans for his own success 
and ambitious for the success of France. In 1666, at the 
age of twenty-three, he came out to Canada, filled with the 
passion of his age, the desire to discover a water route to 
India. Not much is known of his early explorations, but il 
is supposed that he discovered the Ohio River and partially 
explored it. In 1679 he set out on an expedition to explore 
the Mississippi. By this time he had given up the idea of 
a water route to India. His great ambition was to reach 
. ^ .. , ^ the mouth of the Mississippi and secure the 

La Salle sets out . 

to explore the vallcy for Fraucc. Having built the Grifin, 
Mississippi. ^ g^^n ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ Niagara River, he sailed 

in it through Lakes Erie and Huron and landed on the 
shore of Lake Michigan. He then sent back his boat for 




LA SALLE CLAIMING FOR FRANCE ALL THE TERRITORY THROUGH WHICH THE 
MISSISSIPPI AND ns TRIBIITARIRS FLOWF.D. 



FRENCH EXPLORATIONS 



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supplies, but he never heard from it again. This was only 
one of the many trials and disappointments in his troubledi 
life. A little later he reached the Illinois La saiie reaches 
River, and sailing about half way down, built a the mouth of the 
fort afterward fitly named Crevecoeur (Heart- 'ssissipp . 
break). In 1682 he found the Mississippi and explored it to. 
its mouth. There, according to French custom, he planted 
the French arms and claimed all the country through which^ 
the river and its tributaries ^ 

flowed. He called the country 
Louisiana in honor of the French 
King, Louis XIV. This was the 
year in which Penn was laying 
the foundations of Philadelphia. 

83. Attempt to Plant a Colony 
at the Mouth of the Mississippi. 
— La Salle's aims were two-fold : 
(i) To establish military and trade 
centres at various LaSaiie'stwo 
points and (2) to "'"*• 
plant a colony at the mouth of 
the Mississippi River. In this 
way he hoped to get control of 
the fur trade for France. He had 
built many forts. He now returned to France to get people- 
for his colony. He succeeded in getting men for this new 
scheme, but in sailing for the mouth of the Mississippi he- 
missed it and. landed several hundred miles to the west at 
Matagorda Bay. Trials and difficulties grew thick about 
him until, at the end of two years, he started overland to. 
get assistance from Canada. While he and his wretched 
followers were wandering through the dense forests, he 
was waylaid and shot dead by some of the men of his, 
own company (1687). He had not accom- whatLaSaiie. 
plished his full purpose, but in exploring <"«'• 
the Ohio and the Mississippi and in building forts in the- 
unoccupied territory he had done 21. great work for his, 
country. 




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92 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

84. On Account of La Salle's Exploration the Missis- 
sippi Valley Becomes a Part of New France. — The plant- 
ing of French arms at the mouth of the Mississippi was a 
very significant event in American history. It was the 
declaration to the world that France laid claim to the 
whole Mississippi valley from the Rocky to the Alleghany 
Mountains. Spain had failed to follow up her discovery of 
the Mississippi by making the country known to the world 
or by colonizing it. It had been the dream of La Salle to 
unite this immense and valuable territory 

La Salle's dream. ... 4.1 o. t 11 1 • i 

With the bt. Lawrence valley, makmg a vast 
empire wMiich would crowd out the English. The English 
had planted their colonics on the Atlantic sea-coast, and he 
wished to keep them shut in behind the Alleghanies for- 
ever. The Mississippi and St. Lawrence valleys would 
form the New France of America, with the seat of govern- 
ment removed to the Mississippi, 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. You have been studying colonial history from the earliest settlements 

to 1689. Before that date, each colony largely went its own way, 
with but little interest in any other. After that date, the colonies 
v/ere gradually drawn nearer together by the necessity of uniting for 
a better defence against common enemies. One of these common 
enemies was the French and the Indians, and another the royal and 
proprietary governors. 

2. What was done for France by Verrazano ? by Cartier ? by Cham- 

plain ? You cannot too carefully note the resoilts of Champlain's 
mistake (1609) ^^ making enemies of the Iroquois. 

3. Trace carefully on the map the various water-ways by which the 

French could reach the Mississippi valley. What part did the 
Jesuit missionaries bear in the toilsome •work of exploration ? 

4. Describe the work of La Salle. What w^ere his aims ? Notice what 

he did in 1682, only seven years before the great landmark 1689. 
What were the results of his work ? Write an essay on his explora- 
tions. 

5. Learn all you can about the Iroquois Indians, as their influence upon 

colonial history vra.s remarkable. You v^ill find a good account of 
them in the first chapter of Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontidc. 



CHAPTER X 

THE LAST FRENCH WAR 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, III.; 
Wright's Children's Stories in American History ; Sloane's French War and 
the Revolution ; Cook's Stories in the Old Dominion ; Coffin's Old Times 
In the Colonies ; Fiske's War of Independence; Richardson's History of Our 
Country ; Hart's Formation of the Union. 

OUTSIDE READINGS : WInsor's Narrative and Critical History, V. and VI. ; 
Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe; Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac; Park- 
man's Old Regime in Canada; Bancroft's United States, V.; Morris's Half 
Hours with American History, I.; Hinsdale's Old Northwest; Wilson's A His- 
tory of the American People, I!.; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic; Rossiter 
Johnson's Old French War; Scudder's George Washington; Franklin's Au- 
tobiography; Wilson's George Washington ; Ford's The True George Wash- 
ington. 

FICTION : Cooper's Last of the Mohicans ; Thackeray's Virginians ; 
Henty's With Wolfe in Canada ; Munroe's At War with Pontiac. 

POETRY : Longfellow's Evangeline (the Acadians). 

85. England and France Struggle for Control in 
America (1689-1763). — These events in the Mississippi val- 
ley occurred just before 1689. In 1688 James ^^^g^^^^^^^g^^. 
II., one of the Stuart kings, was driven out of land and France 
England and found refuge in the court of ('<^*9-'763). 
France. There France took up his cause, and England and 
France began a series of wars which did not end until 1763. 
While these wars were going on in Europe there was fight- 
ing between the French and English colonies in America. 

The Iroquois stood in the way of French The iroquois and 
success, for the French sought the fur trade, the fur trade, 
and the Iroquois largely controlled it in the region of the 
Great Lakes. But since the day that Champlain had joined 

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94 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

the Algonquins and helped them defeat the Iroquois, the 
French had been persistently hindered and harassed by 
these powerful tribes in the Mohawk valley. It will be re- 
membered that the English, when they conquered New 
Netherland, inherited from the Dutch the good-will and 
friendly alliance of these Indians. 

Both the French and the English encouraged their Ind- 
ian allies to make attacks upon frontier settlements during 
the years that France and England were at war. The vari- 
The Intercolonial ous wars iu the colonies were called Inter- 
^"^- colonial Wars.^ The last one is the most in- 

teresting one to us. It is known as the Last French War^ in 
America and the Seven Years' War in Europe (1756-1763). 

86. Causes of the Last French War. — Both England 
and France claimed the territory between the Alleghanies 
Reasons why and the Mississippi. England claimed it by 
r«'n<r"atm!rt"h^e" ^hc discovcry of the Cabots and by Indian 
nississippi valley, treaty, and France by reason of exploration. 
France had done much more than England to make this 
region known, but had not occupied the country. When, 
therefore, the English colonies, which had been taking root 
on the Atlantic coast, had spread as far west as the eastern 
base of the Alleghanies, a struggle for possession was inevi- 
table. 

By 1750 the French had built a line of sixty forts by 

' The first three of the Intercolonial Wars, named after the English sovereign 
reigning at the time, were as follows: King William's War (1689-1697), Queen 
Anne's War (1702-1713). and King George's War (1744-1748). During the last 
one the New England colonists, led by Colonel Pepperrell, captured Louisburg, a, 
great fortress on Cape Breton Island. The French had thought that this strong- 
hold could withstand any attack, and were therefore amazed at the success of the 
New England farmers and fishermen. At the end of the war, however, England 
gave up Louisburg to France. 

2 To develop union among the English colonies, there were needed such com- 
mon interests as the Intercolonial Wars furnished. Massachusetts, Connecticut, 
and New York united in King William's War ; South Carolina, New England, New 
York, and New Jersey organized separate expeditions against the French and Ind- 
ians in Queen Anne's War ; the northern colonics engaged in King George's War ; 
and in the Last French War all the colonies stood side by side in a solid array against 
the French and Indians. This war was national, and led the provincial to begin 
to think of himself as an American. 



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FRENCH SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF THE TIME OF THE FRENCH WAR. 

way of the Great Lakes, from the St. Lawrence to the 
mouth of the Mississippi. Great skill was shown in lo- 
cating them at points of military importance. In many 
cases they atterwa^-d became great business French forts and 
and trade centres. Detroit, Chicago, Nat- colonies, 
chez, and St. Louis mark the sites of some of these forts. 
The French had planted colonies also at Mobile and New 
Orleans early in the eighteenth century. Thus far they had 
outgeneraled the English in establishing a claim to such 
a vast extent of territory, for the English colonists had 
been so busy with their own aifairs that they had thought 
very little of the land lying west of the mountains. But at 
last they had waked up and were ready to make a stubborn 
fight if necessary. 

French and English traders had come into collision in 
the disputed territory, and both the French and the English 
appreciated the need of immediate action. About the same 
time that the French governor was once more trying to 
make friends with the Iroquois* Indians, and urging the 



' The Iroquois were the great barrier between the French and the disputed terri, 
tory. During this war the Iroquois were neutral. 



96 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

home government to send colonists to the Ohio valley, the 
Ohio Company was formed by some gentlemen in Virginia. 
This company received from the king, on condition of set- 
The Ohio Com- tlcmcnt, 3. grant of 600,000 acres of land be- 
p«ny- tween the Great Kanawha and Mononga- 

hela Rivers. Lawrence Washington had a large interest 
in the Ohio Company, and his younger brother George was 
employed as surveyor. The Ohio Company at once began 
to send explorers into the disputed region, and at the same 
time the French were taking formal possession by sinking 
lead plates with inscriptions at the mouths of the streams. 

To get ahead of the English the French built a line of 
forts on the direct route to the Ohio.^ Governor Dinwid- 
Washinffton's ^^^ ^^'^^ Gcorgc Washington, then adjutant- 
journey to the general of the Virginia militia, to inform the 
French forts. Frcnch commandcr^ that he was building 

on English territory and would do well to depart peace- 
ably. Washington at this time was twenty-one years old 
and over six feet tall. Cool-headed and fearless, with seven 
companions, all on pack-horses, he started from Williams- 
burg, Va., on his perilous journey late in October, 1753. 
About the middle of January, 1754, he returned with the 
refusal of the French commander to withdraw. 

As the juncture of the Alleghany and Monongahela 
Rivers was the " Gateway of the West," a fort here would 
control the entrance to the Ohio valley. Both nations had 
their e3^es upon this important site. The English reached 

* These forts included Presque Isle, Le Boeuf, and Venango on the Alleghany. 

* To reach Fort Le Bceuf, situated only fifteen miles from Lake Erie, Washing- 
ton had to travel five hundred miles through the wilderness. By the time he was 
ready to start back from Fort Venango, it was Christmas. The pack-horses were 
so weak that Washington and a single companion pressed forward on foot. They 
had many narrow escapes from death. A treacherous Indian guide, who was not 
three rods in advance, turned suddenly and shot at Washington, but missed him. 
Washington took the Indian's gun away and let him go. On reaching the Alle- 
ghany River Washington and his companion found it full of floating ice. With 
nothing but a hatchet, they made a raft and began crossing the river. Shortly after- 
ward Washington was struck by a piece of floating ice and knocked into the water. 
Darkness falling upon them before they couM reach the opposite side of the river, 
they spent the night on an island, where they nearly froze to death. 



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97 



it first, but were driven off by a larger force of French, who 
put up a fort and called it Fort Du Quesne. Washington, 
who was on his way from Virginia to occupy the new fort, 
was met by the unsuccessful party of English. He pushed 
on to Great Meadows (Pennsylvania), and there learned 
that the French were marching toward him. Advancing 
with the aid of an Indian guide and forty men, 
he met a French party in a dark glen near by, 
and exchanged shots with them. The French 
leader and most of his men were killed. This encounter 
bejran tlie war. Washino;-ton returned to Great Meadows 



The fighting; be- 
gins at Great 
rieadows. 







QUEBEC IN 1730. 

and threw up intrenchments which he called Fort Neces- 
sity. Here he was defeated by the Fi-ench and obliged to 
retire (July, 1754). This handful of men with their youth- 
ful leader had fired the shot which set in motion European 
armies. The war which followed was but little less im- 
portant in its issues than the Revolution. Let us now fol- 
low it in some of its most important engagements. . 

87. Plan of the War.— The plan of the English in 1755 
and their general plan for the war was four-fold. An ex- 
pedition was to be sent against Acadia ; a second against 
Crown Point, n French fort on Lake Champlain, which 



'98 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

controlled the route to Canada from the south ; a third was 
"to move through the Mohawk valley and capture Fort 
Niagara, the key to the Great Lakes ; and a fourth, the most 
important, under the leadership of General Braddook, had 
for its object the capture of Fort Du Qucsne, the " Gate- 
way of the West." 

88. Braddock's Defeat (1755.) — In 1755 General Brad- 
tiock was sent over to take command of the English forces 
"in America. He was a brave soldier with much expe- 
rience, but he knew nothing of fighting the Indians in 
woodland warfare. Self-contident and headstrong, he was 
quite unwilling to take advice from Wash- 

Ueneral Braddock. . t-' i i • i i i i i i • 

ington or rrankhn,^ who both warned him 
Against Indian ambuscades. He trusted all things to his 
English regulars. The colonial troops were to his mind 
Very inferior, the colonial officers inexperienced, and he 
i"egarded them with contempt. With 2,000 men Braddock 
Started from Alexandria, Virginia, toward Fort Du Quesne.^ 
His purpose was to capture this fort and then to march 
tiorth along the Alleghany River, capture the line of forts 
"upon its banks, and join the other forces at Niagara. In 
marching his troops he insisted upon the same order and 
precision as in the open fields of Europ'^. and would listen 
to no suggestions of avoiding risks from ambush. Finally, 
when within eight miles of the fort, the fears of the de- 
spised American militia were realized. Braddock's army 
The ambush and marchcd iuto an ambush. The attack came 
the battle. fi-Qm an unsecu foe, who shot down by scores 

the surprised English soldiers. The regulars tried to fight 
in ranks, but in doing so were the more easily struck down 

* Benjamin Franklin was at this time forty-nine years old. He had been for 
many years a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and was now Postmaster-gen- 
■eral for America. 

2 Braddock was in great need of horses and wagons, which for a long time he 
was not able to secure. At Frederick, Maryland, he was met by Benjamin Frank- 
lin, who used his powerful influence to procure from Pennsylvania farmers one hun- 
dred and fifty wagons, six hundred draft-horses, and fifteen hundred pack-horses. 
Franklin promised to see that the farmers were paid for their horses and wagons, 
«nd he kept his word. 




GENERAL BRADDOCK'S TROOPS IN AN INDIAN AMBUSCADE. 



THE LAST FRENCH WAR 99 

by the Indians firing- from behind trees. Braddock made 
a brave effort to bear up against the foe. Four horses were 
killed under him, and he was on the fifth when he received 
a mortal wound. Washington, one of Braddock's staff, had 
three horses shot under him, and four bullets passed 
through his clothes. 

Finally, after suffering severel}^ the regulars fled in 
shameful rout. The brave Virginians, led by Washington, 
fought behind trees in true Indian fashion, and saved the 
army from utter ruin. Out of Braddock's Djgmai failure of 
army of 2,000, 700 men and three-fourths of Braddock's expeo 
the officers were killed. Such was the dismal '•'*'*'"• 
failure of Braddock's expedition. The miserable remnant 
of his army retreated, and the Indians laid waste the settle- 
ments in western Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. 

89. Removal of the Acadians (1755). — During the same 
summer that Braddock was defeated the people of Acadia 
were removed from their homes. Acadia was included in 
what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It was 
settled by the French early in the seventeenth century, and 
about one hundred years later (1710) was captured by the 
English. For forty-five years it had been un- jhe Acadians take 
der English rule. But the simple-minded, sides with the 
ignorant peasantry continued to speak the ^'■^"<=*'' 
French language and to take sides with the French in every 
struggle with the English. In this way they did niuch in- 
jury to the English cause. Accordingly, in 1755, some 
troops from New England landed in Acadia and told the 
inhabitants they must promise to support the English king 
or they would be sent out of the country. More than 5,000 
of them refused, and they were torn from their Their removal 
homes and scattered among the colonies from necessary. 
Massachusetts to Georgia. A large number of them found 
their way to Louisiana, where many of their descendants 
may be found to-day. This removal caused much hardship, 
but it seemed to be a military necessity. 

90. Montcalm and French Successes. — There had been 
fighting in the colonies for about two vcars before war was 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



declared between England and France in 1756. The first 
two years of fightin^^ in the colonies found tiie French suc- 
cessful almost everywhere. The English government sent 
Weak English to America very weak and ineflficient generals. 
generals. Thcsc men, Hkc Braddock, were unwilling to 

take any advice from colonial officers and looked down 
upon colonial troops. Moreover, they so managed the 

various armies that there 
was not united and harmo- 
nious action. The French, 
on the contrary, were ably 
handled by Montcalm, who 
so massed his forces at im- 
portant points that, during 
these two years, he kept the 
English out of the disputed 
territory, and hemmed 
them in behind the AUe- 
ghanies. At the close of 
1757 the outlook for Eng- 
land was gloom}-. 

91. \A(''illiani Pitt and 
English Successes. — At 
this critical time William 
Pitt became the head of 
affairs in England. Clear- 
headed and great-hearted, 
he was a true hero. He loved England as fondly as his 
own life and was willing to rise or fall with her. He said, 
" I can save England," and he did save England. His faith 
in himself and his country filled the people with hope and 
confidence. He appointed strong and able officers for the 
troops in America. He put the colonial officers and troops 
on an equal footing with the English and pushed forward 
the various armies in energetic, united action. The spirit 
of Pitt was everywhere. In quick succession Louisburg, 
Fort Frontenac, Fort Du Quesne, Fort Niagara, and other 
French strongholds fell into the hands of the English. 




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lot 



General Wolfe. 



92. Wolfe and the Capture of Quebec (September i8^ 
1755). — Pitt showed great wisdom in appointing General 
Wolfe to take command of an expedition 
against Quebec, the most important place now 
remaining in possession of the French.' General Wolfe, 
then in his thirty-third 3'ear, had a feeble body but a fear- 
less soul. As brigadier-general at Louisburg he had gained 
high praise for energy and boldness. Pitt believed in this 
brave young general, and therefore 
placed him at the head of an army of 
10,000 men for the capture of Quebec. 
The men so idolized Wolfe that they 
would gladly follow him to victory 
or death. 

Quebec was situated on steep and 
lofty cliffs overlooking the St. Law- 
rence, and was pro- 

' , K Quebec. 

tected by a strong for- 
tress. This fortress was the strongest 
in America, and the key to Canada. 
Wolfe and his army tried in vain for 
three months to find a weak spot 
where they might make a successful 
attack, but failure met them on every 
hand. The English troops were dis- 
couraged, and even the brave Wolfe began to lose hope^ 
but in spite of sickness and intense bodily suffering he 
resolved to make one more attempt to take Quebec. 

At last his searching eyes caught sight of a pathway up 
the rugged sides of the cliffs along the river bank, some 
distance above the city. Here was an opportunity not ta 
be neglected. One dark night Wolfe's army floated quietly 
down the river in boats and landed at the foot The English ciimb 
of the rocky heights. The brave soldiers, the rocky heights, 
with immense difficulty, pulled themselves and their cannon 
up the steep ascent. Reaching the top, thev quickly over- 

• Crown Point and Ticonderoga were captured by the English under Amherst ilk 
the summer of 1759 (the last of July). 




MAJ.-GEN. JAMES WOLFE. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



powered the guard, which was too much astonished to make 
resistance. In the morning-, Wolfe's men were drawn up in 
line of battle on the Plains of Abraham, less than a mile 
from the walls of Quebec. Montcalm, astonished at what 
the English had done, would not wait for an attack, but at 
once led his army out on the open plain. The hghting was 
terrible, and the French could not stand up against the 
withering fire of the English. Wolfe led in a furious charge 

and, although twice pierced with 
bullets, refused to give up until he 
received a mortal wound. It was 
Wolfe's victory hard for him to die as 
anddeaUi. long as the issuc was in 

doubt, but when, in his last moments, 
he heard the shout of victorv, he 
said, "Now, God be praised, I will 
die in peace." Montcalm was also 
mortally wounded, and in the hour 
of death was equally heroic. When 
told that he could not live more than 
ten or twelve hours, he exclaimed, 
"Thank God, I shall not live to see 
Quebec surrendered." A few days later Quebec passed 
from FrcMich into English hands (September i8, 1759). 

93. The Treaty of Peace (1763).— With the fall of 
Quebec the last stronghold of the French in America 
passed into the hands of the English. The following year 
Montreal surrendered, and the colony of New France 
ceased to exist. Although the war was over in America, 
it still continued for three years in Europe, and Spain 
joined France against England. It was finally closed by 
the treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. By this treaty France 
ceded to Spain all the territory lying between the Missis- 
sippi and the Rocky Mountains ; also the town of New 
Orleans, which controlled the navigation of the Mississippi. 
To England she gave Canada and all her territory east of 
the Mississippi.' Spain gave Florida to England in ex- 

* France retained for fishing stations two small islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, 
in the Hulf of St. Lawrenc e. 




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THE LAST FRENCH WAR 103 

change for Havana, which the English had captured during 
the war. The English had driven out of North America 
successively the Dutch (1664) and the French (1763). Eng- 
land and Spain alone remained. Thenceforward these two 
had control in North America. 

94. Other Results of the War. — But there were other 
far-reaching results of the Last French War which largely 
affected the future of the English colonies: (i) Up to this 
time there had been little of common interest among them. 
But all were engaged in this struggle, and they fought side 
by side. Thus the war taught them to know and respect 
each other, gave them a mutual interest, and prepared them 
for union. (2) They were made to realize their own 
strength and to see that their military ability was quite 
equal to that of the English soldiers. (3) The war was a 
preparatory school for the Revolution. Such officers as 
Marion, Stark, Putnam, and Washington received a mil- 
itary training of great value. (4) Although in fighting the 
French in America, England felt that she had been pro- 
tecting the colonies, the colonies felt that they had been 
helping England in establishing English against French 
authority. This attitude explains their growing sense of 
power and independence which led, after the removal of 
the French, to their resistance against British interference 
and their final separation from the British crown. 



NOTE 

The Conspiracy of Pontiac. — When, at the close of the Last French 
War, England tried to take possession of the territory west of the Al'eghanies 
and north of the Ohio, trouble with the Indians in that region at once arose. 
The French, embittered by their loss of this territory, stirred up the Indians 
against the English, and the conspiracy of Pontiac was the outcome. This 
able and daring chief of the Ottawas organized a widespread movement for 
the purpose of destroying all the English settlers west of the Alleghanies. 
Having won over to his scheme many tribes, he succeeded in capturing 
eight out of twelve forts, whose garrisons he put to death. This fierce and 
bloody war lasted two years and ended in the complete failure of Pontiac. 



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TO THE PUPIL 

1. What was the leading cause of the Last French War ? What did 
the Ohio Company set out to do ? What journey did Washington 
make and with what results? Write an account of this journey. 

2. How did the war begin ? In outlining the plan of the war use the 
map freely. 

3. What do you think of Braddock and of the causes of his defeat ? 
Was the removal of the Acadians just ? Give reasons for your 
answer. 

4. Account for French successes in the early years of the war. What 
had William Pitt to do with English successes later ? 

5. What do you admire in the character of General Wolfe ? For many 
interesting facts about the personality of this heroic man, see Park- 
man's Montcalm and Wolfe. 

^. Imagine yourself to have been one of Wolfe's soldiers and write an 

account iu the first person of scaling the Heights of Abraham and of 

the battle on the following day. 
7. What were the results of the war ? Make two brief outlines, one 

containing the advantages the French had in America and the other 

containing the advantages the English had. 
S. Subject for debate : Resolved, that the French had a just claim to the 

Ohio valley. 
9. Subject for essay: Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. 

10. To aid you in an intelligent review^ from the beginning of the book, 
you can supplement the chronological chart suggested at the end of 
Chapter VI. by adding a fourth parallel line for the principal events 
connected with French exploration and colonization. Such a reviev/ 
will help you to understand clearly the nature of the struggle, mainly 
on the part of four European countries, to get control of North 
America. By 1763 England had come out ahead in this struggle. 

11. As you may know^, Francis Parkman is the standard historian on the 
relations betw^een the English and the French colonies in America. 
Read his Montcalm and Wolfe and Longfellow's Evangeline. 



CHAPTER XI 

LIFE IN THE COLONIES AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH 
AND INDIAN WARS 

REFERENCES: Drake's Making of New England; Richardson's History 
of Our Country ; Barnes's Popular History of the United States ; Sanford's 
History of Connecticut; Thwaites's Colonies; Scudder's Men and Manners 
in America One Hundred Years Ago ; Eggleston's Household History. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Earle's Customs and Fashions in Old New England; 
Earle's Sabbath in Puritan New England; Earle's Costume of Colonial Times; 
Weeden's Economic and Social History of New England; Earle's Margaret 
Winthrop; Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York; Irving's Sketch 
Book ; Hart's Colonial Children. 

95. The Colonies in General. — At the close of the 
French and Indian Wars in 1763, the colonies mainly occu- 
pied a strip of land lying along- the Atlantic coast and 
stretching all the way from Maine to Florida. There were 
thirteen of these original colonies, which, by reason of dif- 
ference in soil, climate, and other natural as well as social 
and economic conditions, may be divided into three groups : 
the New England group, or New Hampshire, jhe three groups 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecti- of colonies, 
cut ; the Middle group, or New York, New Jersey, Penn- 
sylvania, and Delaware ; and the Southern group, or Mary- 
land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 
The populaticn was about two million souls,* one-fourth of 
whom were sUves. The people lived mainly along the sea- 
coast and large rivers, although a few settle- Population and 
ments stretched back into the forests. As 'a^Ke towns, 
many of the people were engaged in farming there were 
few large towns. Philadelphia, with a population of about 

*The population of New York City in 1900 was 3,437,202. 
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io6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

25,000, was the largest town; Boston was not far behind; 
and New York contained 10,000 or 12,000 people. 

Money being scarce, trade was mainly by barter. There 
were much comfort and prosperity and some wealth, but 
there was great need of labor to develop the resources of 
the West, which was now under the control of the English 
and open to settlement. 



THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP OF COLONIES 

96. Occupations of the People. — By reason of the poor, 
rocky soil of New England, agriculture yielded a meagre re- 
turn for a great deal of hard labor. Farming on a small scale 
was extensive, but much- more important sources of wealth 
The fisheries and were the cod and whale fisheries. By 1763 New 
the West i^dia England had built up a flourishing trade with 
Islands. the Wcst India Islands. Cargoes of dried fish 
from New England were exchanged in these islands for 
sugar, molasses, and slaves. Large forests furnished excel- 
lent material for shipbuilding. Boston alone had six hun- 
dred vessels engaged in foreign commerce and a thousand 
in the fisheries and trade along the coast. All this fishing 
and trading developed a hardy and expert class of sailors 
that later furnished excellent material for our navy. 

97. Religion and Church Worship. — Religion came first 
with the Puritan. The minister was usually the leading 
man in the community, and he did much to form public 
opinion in political as well as religious matters. 

The churches were plain within and without. They were 
not heated, even in the coldest weather. But for all this, 
Church attend. everybody was expected to attend, absence 
«"". without good excuse being punishable b}' a 

fine. The minister sometimes preached in overcoat and 
mittens. Women carried heated stones in their muffs, and 
later handstoves took the place of the stones. When going 
to church the men sometimes carried their muskets and left 
sentinels outside to watch against sudden attack from the 
Indians. People were carefully seated according to their 



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social position, the men sitting on one side of the church 
and the women on the other. As the minister often preached 
two or three hours, the congregation at times naturally 
The tithing grcw tired and sleepy. But the tithing man 

»"«"• was always present with his long rod of author- 

ity. This rod had a piece of brass on one end and a hare's 
foot on the other. If a woman went to sleep she was gently 
touched with the hare's foot, but if an unfortunate boy 



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PURITANS GOING TO CHURCH. 



nodded or otherwise failed in reverent attention, he was less 
gently rapped on the head with the hard end of the rod. 

98. The Salem Witchcraft (1692). — It has often been 
said that the gloomy religious life of the Puritans led to that 
strange delusion known as the Salem Witchcraft. As a 
matter of fact, the belief in witchcraft in 1692 was not con- 
fined to the Puritans, for such a belief was almost universal. 
The witchcraft craze in Massachusetts started from Salem 
Village (now Danvers) a short distance from Salem. A 
half dozen girls and young women, from ten to twenty 
years old, became almost insane over the subject of witch- 
craft. They mewed like cats, barked like dogs, and went 
into fits, declaring that certain persons, in league with the 
devil, bit them, pinched them, or in some way tortured 
them. On the testimony of these silly girls hundreds of 
innocent people were thrown into prison on the charge of 
witchcraft. Before the frenzy had spent itself, nineteen 



LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES I09 

people were hanged, including- a clergyman, and one old 
man eighty years of age was pressed to death with heavy 
weights. But when, after six months, some of the magis- 
trates and even the governor's wife were accused, the 
people realized their folly and stopped punishing for witch- 
craft. 

99. Education. — Education stood next to religion and, 
from the Puritan standpoint, was almost a part of religion. 
The Puritans therefore established a system of public edu- 
cation soon after reaching New England. Every town was 
required to have a school, and before 1650 each New 
England colony, except Rhode Island, had passed laws en- 
forcing some degree of education. Everywhere there was 
training in reading and writing. As a consequence, public 
education was so general that there were few people who 
could not read and write. As early as 1636 Harvard Col- 
lege was established at Cambridge, Mass., and in 1701 Yale 
College at New Haven, Conn. 

100. Crimes and Punishments. — Laws were severe, and 
few crimes were committed. Many offences were punish- 
able by death, and all kinds of punishments were inflicted 
in the most public way. Stocks, pillories, ducking-stools, 
and whipping-posts could usually be found in every village 
of any size. The pillory was a wooden frame, so constructed 
as to hold fast the head and hands of the offender. The 
stocks held fast the offender's feet only. In The stocks and 
some cases he was confined in a cage and ex- thepiiiory. 
posed to the public gaze ; in others, he was branded with 
the initial letter of his crimes or compelled to wear, in a 
conspicuous place, a big initial letter indicating his crime. 

lOi. Life and Manners. — The New England diet was 
simple. Cider and rum were favorite drinks, used often as 
we use tea and coffee now. 

The best room and the kitchen were the principal rooms 
in the house. The most noticeable thing in the kitchen 
was the fireplace. It would accommodate a Theoid=tiino 

backlog five or six feet long and two or three «repiace. 

feet in diameter and was large enough for roasting an en- 



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Amusements. 



tire sheep. As there were no stoves all cooking- was done 
here. By such firesides the mothers and daughters would 
sit during the long winter evenings with their knitting, 
spinning, or quilting, while the father read his Bible or 
smoked his pipe. Sometimes as the fire blazed, cider-drink- 
ing, nut-cracking, and story-telling helped to while away 
the evening hours. 

In general, however, life was neither bright nor cheer- 
ful, as the Puritans were shy of most kinds of enjoyment. 

But the young people were not with- 
out simple amusements, 
like house -raisings, 
dancing, and corn-husking parties, 
and social gatherings for spinning, 
quilting, and apple- 
paring. On these 
occasions there was 
much genuine fun. 
Christmas was not 
observed because 
the Puritans did not 
like the Church of 
England, which 
made much of the 
observance of 
Christmas. Their 
chief holiday was 
Thanksgiving Day, 
which they celebrated, as now, in the autumn. This was 
made the occasion for family reunions. At the Thanks- 
TheThankBgivJng si^'i"& dinner the table was loaded with 
reunion. chickcu, turkcy, nuts, plum-puddings, mince- 

pies, pumpkin-pies, and many other toothsome varieties of 
food. Weddings were festive occasions. The friends and 
Wedding* and neighbors were generally entertained at the 
funerals. bridc's homc, the wedding feast often lasting 

several days. Funerals were very expensive. Gifts such 
as scarfs, gloves, and rings were generousi/ distributed to 




A WANTON GOSPELLER, 



LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES III 

the guests, and an elaborate feast of meats and drinks was 
regarded as an essential feature of the occasion. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Prepare yourself to -write five minutes on any one of the following 

topics : Occupations of the people, church worship, education, crimes 
and punishments, the old-time fireplace, and amusements. 

2. Imagine yourself to be a New England boy or girl in colonial days and 

write a story of your experiences. Such w^ork will greatly aid you 
in reviving the past. 

3. What do you like in the manners and customs of Early New England ? 

Read Earle's Customs and Fashions in Old New England. 



THE SOUTHERN GROUP OF COLONIES 

102. Occupations of the People. — In the Southern col- 
onies, a rich soil was general, rivers made excellent high- 
ways, and the climate was well suited to agriculture. The 
plantations were scattered along the rivers, The plantation and 
sometimes many miles apart, with thickly the planter, 
wooded stretches of land between. Each planter in Vir- 
ginia had his own wharf, from which his produce was car- 
ried to England, and to which manufactured goods of every 
sort were brought in exchange. The planter needed but 
little that he did not obtain on his plantation or at his wharf. 
His slaves were not only cultivators of the soil, but they in- 
cluded skilled workmen, such as millers, tailors, carpenters, 
and shoemakers. Under such an independent system of 
life, towns were not needed, and before the Revolution 
there were only a few towns of any size in Virginia. 

103. Education. — The facilities for common school edu- 
cation were poor. Governor Berkeley said (1670), " I thank 
God there are no free schools, nor printing, Berkeley opposes 
and I hope we shall not have them these hun- *«-ee schools, 
dred years." The scattered condition of the population did 
not favor the establishment of good common schools. The 
rich planters had tutors at home for their children and 
often sent their sons to Europe to be educated, but the 
schools for the masses were so few that the poorer people 



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generally grew up in ignoi^ance. The wealth}- planters 
could live without work and formed a leisure class. Many 
of them owned fine libraries. 

Although Virginia had been settled as earl}' as 1607, the 
most important additions were made to her population in 
the time of the Commonwealth (1649-1660,) During this 
_. ,. . time hundreds of the king's followers, or 

The cavaliers and ... 

political leaders in cavaliers, Came to Virginia. These men were 
Virginia. usually from the higher ranks of English soci- 

ety, and had been prominent in public life in England, 
Their descendants in Virginia naturally inherited their 
political tendencies and included the ancestors of George 
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James 
Monroe, Patrick Henry, the Lees, and the Randolphs. We 
need not be surprised, then, that Virginia furnished more 
leaders in the Revolution than any other colony and after, 
ward became the * Mother of Presidents." 

104. Life and Manners. — The mansion of the planter, 
built of wood or brick, was two stories high, with a spa- 
cious veranda and a wide hall- 
way. Close by the mansion 

The mansion and WCrC the slave 

the slave quarters, quarters, Consist- 
ing of wooden cabins sur- 
rounded by gardens and poultry 
yards. These negro quarters, 
on a large plantation, made a 
small village, and all about them 
could be seen swarms of negro 
children. Planters on the large 
plantations lived in wasteful 
Manner of life of cxtravagancc, with 

the planters. choicC dogS, fine 

horses, and a coach-and-six for 
great occasions. They were 
fond of such sports as horse- 
racing and fox-hunting, and 
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COLONIAL RELICS. 



table that the doors of their mansions were always open 
to respectable travellers. Though, as we have seen, Thanks- 
giving was the feast-day of the year in New Christmas a fes- 
England, Christmas was celebrated in a fes- tive occasion, 
tive manner in the South, when everything was gay and 
bright in the planter's house. A great dinner was followed 
in the evening by dancing to the music of the harpsichord 
and the violin. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Find points of difference between the people in New England and 

in the South in respect to occupations, education, and life and man- 
ners. 

2. Write an essay on life in Virginia just before the Revolution. Read 

Scudder's George Washington. 



THE MIDDLE GROUP OF COLONIES 

105. The People and Their Occupation. — The people 
in the New England and Southern groups of colonies were 
largely English, but this was by no means ^n,,^^^ 
true of New York, Pennsylvania, and the tion in New York 
other Middle colonies. Here the population «"" Pennsylvania, 
represented many of the countries of Europe. Trade and 
agriculture were of about equal importance in New York. 

The fur trade claimed most attention in New York and 
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EARLY NFAV AMSTERDAM, SHOWING 



Pennsylvania. Besides furs, the principal exports were 
grain and flour. The principal port for foreign trade was 
then, as now, New York, whose merchants were busy and 
prosperous, employing many ships in their extensive com- 
_ . ... merce with England, the West Indies, and 

Trade, agricult- o '. ' 

ure. and manu- othcr parts of the world. Most manufactured 
acturmg. goods camc from England and the continent 

of Europe. As in New England, the spinning-wheel and 
loom took their place in the domestic economy. The ship- 
building industry and the saw-mill were of necessity early 
developed, and the Dutch wind-mill became a striking feat- 
ure of the landscape. Outside of New York agriculture 
was the most extensive industry. 

Io6. Education. — While the Dutch were in control, 
common schools were well supported in New York, but 
under the English they were not in a flourishing condition. 
The Episcopalians founded King's College, now Columbia 
University, New York, in 1754. Although in New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania but little was done to provide for general 
education, outside of a few larger towns, the Presbyte- 



LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES 



"5 




COSTUMES, AMUSEMENTS, AND ARCHITECTURE. 



rians founded Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1746; and 
Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania 
at Philadelphia in 1749. 

107. Crimes and Punishments. — Crime was not widely 
prevalent in the Middle colonies, although piracy had a 
most demoralizing influence. Hanging, whipping, and the 
pillory were forms of punishment frequently practised under 
the public gaze, as was the case in New England. 

108. Life and Manners Among the Dutch. — The Dutch 
house had a pointed gable roof with a weather-vane on top 
and a porch in front of the house, where the family sat 
during summer evenings to enjoy the air. 
There were great wide fireplaces with seats 
for reading or sewing. The walls were without paper, but 
many pictures in small frames hung upon them. The 
Dutch women were noted for their neatness and ,for their 
excellent housekeeping. They scrubbed the Neat housekeep- 
floors and sprinkled them with sand every '"8:- 

day. The men were slow and easy-going, but they were 
honest, thrifty, and industrious. They were fond of smok- 



The Dutch house. 



Ii6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

ing and liked story-telling and good eating, the Dutch 
housekeepers being noted for their skill in making dough- 
nuts, crullers, and various kinds of cakes. The Dutch intro- 
duced " Santa Claus " and " St. Nicholas " at Christmas 
time, and New Year's visiting. Among them a funeral 
was a most expensive affair. Not only did 
they distribute to the guests gloves, scarfs, 
and rings, as was the custom in New England, but to each 
friend a bottle of wine. In Albany the funeral expenses in 
one instance were $20,000. 

The towns were situated mostly about the mouth of the 
Hudson, and from there the settlements extended through 
the Hudson valley to Albany and then followed the Mo- 
hawk valley. The patroons lived on their vast estates in 
Lifeamongthe grand and richly furnished houses facing the 
patroons. Hud son. They had about them many ser- 

vants and rented to numerous tenants the farms into which 
their estates were divided. These great estates, lying on 
the rivers, w^here goods could be easily landed and cargoes 
sent off, did av;ay with the necessity of trade centres or 
towns. 

The people were more social and fond of merry-making 
than the New Englanders. Their most noted holidays 
were Christmas, New Year's, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, 
and May D3.y. In the country, spinning-bees, house-rais- 
Sociainfeof the i^gs, corn-huskings, and dancing parties were 
p«op'«- favorite amusements; in towns, horse-racing, 

cock-fighting, balls, and picnics. There was little luxury, 
but much quiet contentment with the simple ways o£ 
living. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. What points of difference do you find between the people of the Middle 

colonies and those of New England ? Those of the South ? 

2. Write a short account of life and manners among the Dutch, adding as 

many facts as you can to those given in the text. 

3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in Irving's Sketch Book, is delightful 

reading. 



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MODES OF TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION 

109. Modes of Travel. — It was difficult for the colonies 
to know and understand each other because their means of 
communication were so restricted. The usual mode of 
travel on land was on foot or horseback ; and not only were 
the roads poor, but very few of 
the rivers had bridges. People 
living near the rivers journeyed 
much by row-boats, and those 
along the coast made great use 
of sloops. The trip by water 
from New York to Philadelphia, 
with a fair wind, required three 
days. 

A wagon ran twice a week 
from New York to Philadelphia, 
and, in 1766, a stage-coach was 
put on which made the trip in 
two days. This stage, greatly 

shortening the time, was called a "flying machine." It 
could make the journey from Boston to New York in four 
days. When the coach was ready the driver The ow stage- 
gave notice by sounding a horn, and then, with coach, 
a crack of the whip, away it went on its slow and toilsome 
journey, during which it was no uncommon thing for the 
travellers to be compelled to alight and help pry the coach- 
wheels out of the mire. 

Mails were carried mostly on horseback, and people 
depended mainly on letters for news. Newspapers did not 
at this time tell much about local or colonial 
news. They were full of advertisements and 
news from Europe. The first newspaper was the Boston 
News Letter {lyoA)- At the close of the Last French War 
there were from thirty to forty newspapers in the whole 
country. 



OLD SPINNING-WHEEL. 



Newspapers. 



CHAPTER Xn 

GROWTH TOWARD UNION IN THE COLONIES 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States; Fisher'S 
Civil Government in tlie United States ; Thwaites's Colonies ; Fiske's Colonial 
Era ; Bancroft's United States, 11. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Frothingham's Rise of the Republic; Eggleston's 
Household History; Macy's Our Government; Franklin's Plan of Union (Old 
South Leaflets) ; Fiske's Civil Government in the United States ; Woodburn's 

The American Republic. 

iio. Colonial Government. — The various colonial gov- 
ernments were modelled after the English and were there- 
^. fore much alike in form. Each colony had 

The governor, the J , 

council, and the its govcmor and a law-makmg body consist- 
assembiy. -^^g. ^f ^j^^ Council,^ and the Assembly. The 

Council was the governor's body of advisers. They aided 
the governor in executing his duties, and generally took 
part in making laws. The Assembly was elected by the 
people and was therefore the stronghold of their rights. 
It alone could levy taxes, and in tliis way it controlled 
the public money. 

But the manner of choosing the governor made all the 
difference in the amount of freedom which each colony 
The three kinds cnjoycd. In 1763 there were three political 
of colonies. groups^ of colonics. The first, containing 

Rhode Island and Connecticut, may rightly be called the 
republican, or self-governing, group, because the people 
elected the governor; the second, containing Pennsylvania, 

1 The members of the council were chosen in various ways : by the king, as in 
Virginia; by the proprietary governor, as in Pennsylvania; by the legislature, as in 
Massachusetts ; or by the people, as in Connecticut. 

» These political groups should not be confused with the groups named in 
par. 94. 

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GROWTH TOWARD UNION IN THE COLONIES 119 

Delaware, and Maryland, may be called the proprietary 
group, because the proprietors appointed the governor; 
and the third, containing the remaining eight colonies, 
may be called the royal ^roxxi^, because the king of England 
appointed the governor. 

m. Republican, Proprietary, and Royal Colonies.— 
Connecticut and Rhode Island had very liberal charters 
and governed themselves without any interference from the 
mother-country. They were, even at this early period, 
little republics. In the royal and proprietary 5tr„ggie between 
colonies there was an almost continual strug- the royal andpro- 
gle going on between the governors and the and *thf**'lTsem- 
colonial assemblies. The points at issue were •'•'^s- 
sometimes petty, sometimes serious, and the discussions 
were often bitter. In New York, for instance, the burn- 
ing question was whether the governor should receive a 
fixed salary (1745-1755). The members of the assembly ob- 
jected, for they feared that the governor might thus become 
independent of the people. They believed a fixed salary 
would be in the nature of a tax by the crown, and, true to 
the instincts of their forefathers, they declared that no taxes 
should be levied without the consent of the people. In all 
the proprietary and royal colonies, long and ., , ,, 

, . r\ 1 taxation wlth- 

bitter conflicts were waged over raising money out representa- 
for public' defence, especially during the Inter- *'**"' 
colonial Wars (1689-1763). As the real source of power in 
any government is the authority that lays the taxes, the 
assemblies usually came out ahead. 

The results were twofold : (i) The people received valu- 
able political training, and (2) they learned that they had a 
common interest in contending against the personal rule 
of the king of England. The attempt to enforce personal 
rule, or royal prerogative, as it was called, is jwo results oi 
most familiar in the case of Berkeley in Vir- *he struggle, 
ginia and Andros in Massachusetts, who did much to arouse 
the spirit of opposition in the two leading colonies. These 
colonies were afterward the first to break out in open re- 
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Poor Richard, 173^.. 



112. Need of Union Among the Colonies. — The great 
need of the thirteen colonies was union. We have seen 
how the feeling of common danger from Indian Wars, and 
later from the various wars with the French, drew the col- 
onists together. The com- 
mon grievances of the as- 
semblies against their royal 
and proprietary governors 
united the people still more 
closely, when the latter real- 
ized that their liberties were 
endangered by the British 
crown. 

The royal governors ap- 
preciated the need of union, 
and they naturally sought 
the advantage of the crown. 
They urged union as a means 
of checking the people's 
power. As representatives 
of the king they wished (l) 
to get control of colonial 
trade, and (2) to take the 
right of taxation out of the 



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Why the royal 
governors wished 
union. 



TITLE' r.'XGE OF POOR RICHARDS 
ALMANAC." 



hands of the 
colonial assem- 
blies. For the 
people, under the various 
colonial governments, had 
acquired much more power 
than the king wished them to have. For instance, the dif- 
ferent assemblies, in their narrow, provincial spirit, would 
not act together, and were slow to enlist soldiers, build 
Weakness from forts, or scud armics into the field, where their 
lack of union. Qwn territory was in no danger of attack. As 
a result, there was little united effort to ward off a great 
danger such as threatened the colonies in the Last French 
War and in Pontiac's conspiracy. This lack of union ex- 



GROWTH TOWARD UNION IN THE COLONIES 121 

plains the purpose of James II. in appointing Andros gov- 
ernor of New England, New York, and New Jersey. He 
supposed he would strengthen the Northern colonies by 
uniting them under one government that could act with 
energy and promptness, but, as we have seen, he failed. 

The colonies sought union, in so far as they sought it at 
all, for an entirely different purpose — to ward why the colonic* 
off the offensive restrictions and impositions of sought union. 
England and to extend and increase the rights of the people. 

From the beginning of the English settlements in Amer- 
ica, a democratic spirit was developed by the situation and 
life of the colonists. But Benjamin Franklin^ saw that 
something more than a spirit of democracy or self-govern- 
ment was needed to make a strong people. He saw that 
they needed a central authority to lay taxes for their mutual 
defence. Clearly understanding this need, Franklin pro- 
posed his famous Plan of Union at the Albany Convention' 
(1754). According to this plan each colony Franklin's pian 
was to elect representatives to a Grand Coun- <>* union. 
cil, similar to our present National Congress. This Grand 
Council was to have the power of levying taxes upon the 
people for raising and maintaining armies and otherwise 
providing for the defence of the colonies. Moreover, like 
our present Congress, this Council was to exercise supreme 

' Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706 and died in 1790. His father, 
a soap-boiler and tallow-chandler, had seventeen children, of whom Benjamin was 
the youngest son. At ten years of age the lad was set to work in his father's shop, 
but was dissatisfied with the business. Then he tried printing with his brother, 
but suffered from harsh treatment. Finally, at the age of seventeen he ran away 
from home to seek his fortune. One Sunday morning he landed in Philadelphia, 
cold and friendless, and with only a single dollar in his pocket. 

In 1732 he began to publish Poor Richard's Almanac, which he continued to 
publish for twenty years. Full of witty maxims which people could apply with 
profit to every-day living, it became extremely popular and had an immense sale. 
Franklin became rich and devoted himself to science. By simple experimenting 
with a kite, he discovered that lightning is nothing more than discharges of electric- 
ity. He invented a kind of open stove which is in use at the present time. At 
the close of the Revolution he was associated with John Adams and John Jay in 
securing a treaty of peace with England. 

' Only seven colonies were represented. This Convention was called to form 3 
closer alliance with the Six Nations. 

H 



122 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

authority in questions affecting all the colonies alike. This 
was known as the Albany Plan of Union. 

The king of England did not like it, because he feared 
it might encourage the colonies to form a union in which 
the people would exercise too much power. The colonists 
did not like it^ because they were unwilling to give up 
Reasons for its the right of taxation by their colonial assem- 
faiiure. blics. Fraukliu's Plan of Union failed, but it 

was of great value because it led the people to think seri- 
ously about the advantages of union. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. How did the Council differ from the Assembly ? 

2. What were the three political groups of colonies ? What was the 

distinguishing feature of each group ? 

3. Discuss the nature of the struggle between the various assemblies on 

the one side and the loyal and proprietary governors on the other. 
What were the results ? In this connection, review the struggle be- 
tween Governor Berkeley and the people of Virginia and that be- 
tween Governor Andros and the people of New England. If you 
get clear ideas about these struggles, you will better understand the 
causes of the Revolution. 

4. Why was there need of union among the colonies? What attempts 

at union had been made ? Why did the royal governors wish union 
among the colonies ? On what grounds did the colonies seek union ? 
What was Franklin's Plan of Union? Why did it fail and what 
were its results ? 

CHRONOLOGY 

1524. FRENCH EXPEDITION TO AMERICA UNDER VERRAZANO. 

1538. PAMPHILO DE NARVAEZ LANDS IN FLORIDA. 
1531-33. PIZARRO CONQUERS PERU. 

1534. CARTIER SAILS TO THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE. 

1539. DE SOTO LANDS IN FLORIDA. 

1540. CORONADO'S EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF CIBOLA. 

1541. DE SOTO DISCOVERS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 

1562. COLIGNY'S FIRST COLONY SENT TO FLORIDA UNDER RIBAULT. 

1565. FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 

1576. MARTIN FROBISHER DISCOVERS THE STRAIT SINCE CALLED BY HIS NAUE. 

1579. DRAKE ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST. 

^ The plan was presented to tjie several legislatures, and they all rejected it be- 
cause they did not strongfy feel the need of union. 



GROWTH TOWARD UNION IN THE COLONIES "3 

1584. SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S FIRST EXPEDITION. 

1585. RALEIGH'S FIRST COLONY. 
1587. RALEIGH'S SECOND COLONY. 

1603. FIRST VOYAGE OF SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN TO AMERICA. 

t6o6. PATENT GRANTED TO THE VIRGINIA COMPANIES. 

1607. FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA AT JAMESTOWN. 

1608. FOUNDING OF QUEBEC BY SAMUEL. DE CHAMPLAIN. 

1609. THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN. 

HENRY HUDSON DISCOVERS THE HUDSON RIVER. 
161 1. SIR THOMAS DALE, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA. 

1619. FIRST CARGO OF SLAVES BROUGHT TO JAMESTOWN. 

FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA MEETS IN JAMESTOWN. 

1620. THE PILGRIMS LAND AT PLYMOUTH. 

1623. SETTLEMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT PORTSMOUTH AND DOVER. 

1630. SETTLEMENT OF BOSTON AND NEIGHBORING TOWNS. 

1634. SETTLEMENT OF MARYLAND. 

1635. PERMANENT SETTLEMENT OF CONNECTICUT BY EMIGRANTS FROM MASSACHU- 

SETTS BAY. 

1636. PROVIDENCE FOUNDED BY ROGER WILLIAMS. 

1637. THE PEQUOT WAR. 

1643. THE CONFEDERATION OF NEW ENGLAND COLONIES FORMED. 

1663. CHARTER OF RHODE ISLAND .\ND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS GRANTED BY 

CHARLES II. 
FIRST GRANT OF CAROLINA. 

1664. GRANT OF NEW NETHERLAND TO THE DUKE OF YORK, AND ITS SURRENDER 

TO THE ENGLISH. NAMED NEW YORK. 

GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA ESTABLISHED. 
GRANT OF NE\y JERSEY TO BERKELEY AND CARTERET. 

1665. SECOND GRANT OF CAROLINA. 

ARRIVAL OF PHILIP CARTERET AS GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. ELIZABETH 

FOUNDED. 
1673. MARQUETTE EXPLORES THE MISSISSIPPI. 

1675. OUTBREAK OF KING PHILIP'S WAR IN NEW ENGLAND. 

1676. bacon's REBELLION IN VIRGINIA. 

1679. NEW HAMPSHIRE MADE AN INDEPENDENT ROYAL PROVINCE. 

1680. HENNEPIN'S VOYAGE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. 

r68l. THE GRANT OF PENNSYLVANIA SIGNED. EMIGRATION BEGUN. 

1682. THE FRIENDS BUY EAST JERSEY. 

PENN SAILS FOR AMERICA. 

PHILADELPHIA FOUNDED. 

PENN'S INDIAN TREATY. 

LA SALLE'S VOYAGE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. 

1685. LA SALLE'S COLONY FOUNDED IN TEXAS. 

1686. ANDROS GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF NEW ENGLAND. 

1687. ANDROS ATTEMPTS TO SEIZE THE CONNECTICUT CHARTER. 
1689. ARREST OF ANDROS AT BOSTON. 

1692. OUTBREAK OF THE WITCHCRAFT PANIC AT SALEM, MASS. 

1700. IBERVILLE ESTABLISHES A SETTLEMENT AT POVERTY POINT, LA. 

1702. BEGINNING OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR. 

1715. FIVE NATIONS BECOME SIX BY ADDITION OF THE TUSCARORX. 

1733. OGELTHORPE'S COLONY SETTLES IN GEORGIA. 

SUGAR AND MOLASSES ACT. 
X744. BEGINNING OF KING GEORGE'S WAR, 



124 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

1745. CAPTURE OF LOUISBUEG. 
1748. OHIO COMPANY FORMED. 

LOUISBURG RESTORED TO FRANCE. 

1754. C0LO^aAL CONGRESS AT ALBANY, AND FRANKL'N'S PLAN OF UNION. 

1755. braddock's defeat, 
banishment of the acadians. 

1756. fort oswego surrendered to the french, 
beginning of the last french war. 

1757. massacre of fort william henry. 

1758. defeat of abercrombie at fort ticonderoga. 
recapture of louisburg. 

1759. fort ticonderoga taken by amherst, 
capture of fort niagara by the english, 
wolfe captures quebec. 

1761. attempt to enforce writs of assistance in uai>aachusetts. 
1763. pontiac's war. 
treaty of paris. 



ZTbe IRevolutlon, tbe Confeberatlon, ant) tbe 
jfeberal Minion 



CHAPTER XIII 

THE REVOLUTION 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, III. and 
IV. ; Andrews's United States, I. ; Fiske's War of Independence ; Sloane's 
French War and the Revolution ; Hart's Formation of the Union ; Chan° 
fling's United States ; Richardson's History of Our Country; Coffin's Boys 
of '76; Barnes's Popular History of the United States; Cooke's Stories of the 
Old Dominion ; Hale's Stories of Massachusetts. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Trevelyan's The American Revolution; Winsor's 
Narrative and Critical History, VI. and VII.; Bancroft's United States, III.; 
Fiske's American Revolution ; Hlldreth's United States, II. and 111. ; Lossing's 
Field Book of the Resolution ; Lecky's England in the Eighteenth Century, III. ; 
Wilson's History of the American People, II. ; Frotliingliam's Rise of the Re- 
public; Qoldwin Smith's United States; Morris's Half Hours with American 
History, II.; Hale's Franklin in France ; Hart's Camps and Firesides of the Revo- 
lution ; Roosevelt's Winning the West, Land II.; Greene's Historical View 
of the American Revolution ; Hinsdale's Old Northwest; Green's History of the 
English People, IV.; Drake's Burgoyne's Invasion; Abbot's Blue Jackets of '76; 
Brown's Mercy Warren ; Wharton's Martha Washington ; Hosmer's Samuel 
Adams; Henry's Patrick Henry; Morse's John Adams ; Scudder's George 
Washington ; Hale's George Washington ; Abbot's Paul Jones ; Spark's Life of 
Arnold; Arnold's Life of Arnold; Lossing's Two Spies; Spear's The History of 
Our Navy; Ford's The True Benjamin Franklin; Thwaites's Daniel Boone; 
Greene's General Greene; Brady's Commodore Paul Jones; Wilson's George 
Washington ; Ford's The True George Washington. 

FICTION: Cooper's Lionel Lincoln; Henty's True to the Old Flag; 
Cooper's Spy; Harte's Thankful Blossom; Cooper's Pilot; Siriims's Partisan; 
nitchell's Hugh Wynne; Brady's For Love of Country ; Churchill's Richard 
Carvel ; Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes ; Comfort's Arnold's Tempter. 

POETRY : Holmes's Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle ; Independ- 
ence Bell; Bryant's Seventy-six; Bryant's Song of Marion's Men. 

125 



126 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



The Navigation 
Laws and Acts 
of Trade. 



The Causes of the Revolution 

113. England Tries to Control American Commerce.— 
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European 
countries planted colonies as a means of increasing their 
own trade. In accordance with this theory, England valued 
her American colonies according to the wealth she gained 
from them. To secure control of colonial trade, therefore, 

Parliament began in 
165 1, thirty-one years 
after the landing of the 
Pilgrims, to pass the 
famous Navigation 
Laws and 
Acts of 
Trade. 
These laws required (i) 
that all trade between 
the colonies should be 
carried on in ships built 
in England or in the 
colonies ; (2) that the 
colonies should not ex- 
port such colonial prod- 
ucts as sugar, tobacco, 
iron, furs and lumber to 
any part of the world 
except England, or 
some English colony ; (3) that all European goods should 
be bought in England and brought over to the colonies on 
English vessels; (4) that the colonies should not manufac- 
ture any article that could be manufactured in England. 

The carrying out of these laws would injure the colo- 
„ , , . nists in the following ways : (i) A profitable 

These laws injure & - ^ ' r' 

the colonies in trade witli the Dutch would be cut off at a 
lour ways. single Stroke; (2) whatever colonial products 

the English manufacturer needed he could buy of the colo- 
nies at his own price; (3) as the colonists were compelled to 




JOHN HANCOCK HOUSE, BOSTON, MASS. 



THE REVOLUTION 



127 



buy European goods in England, they had to pay whatever 
English merchants charged, or not buy at all ; (4) while the 
law providing that all European goods should be imported 
in English ships would put money into the pockets of the 
English ship-owner, it would almost ruin the ship-building 
industry in the colonies and throw^ 
thousands of sailors out of employ- 
ment. 

114. The Sugar Act and Smug- 
gling. — In 1733 the famous Sugar Act 
was passed to protect the English 
West India sugar islands. By this 
act a prohibitory duty was laid upon 
the sugar and molasses imported into 
the colonies from the French islands 
in the West Indies. The principal 
exports of New England were lum- 
ber and fish. The inferior qualities 
of fish were carried to the French 
islands and exchanged with profit for 
sugar and molasses. There was thus 
a double advantage to New England 

in this trade : (i) The French would buy fish which were not 
salable elsewhere ; (2) they were willing to sell at a low price 
their sugar and molasses. On the other hand, Advantages of 
the New Englanders made the sugar and mo- Jhe'^FrfnrhWest 
lasses into rum, part of which they consumed indies, 
at home, and the remainder they took to Africa, where they 
exchanged it for slaves to be sold to the Southern colonies. 
All this trade was extremely profitable for New England, 
and was one of the principal sources of wealth. New Eng- 
land merchants saw that if the Sugar Act should be en- 
forced the profits of their West India trade smuggling or 
must be greatly diminished. Financial ruin financial ruin, 
threatened them. They had to choose between that and 
smuggling. They chose smuggling, because they believed 
the law was an unjust interference with the natural rights 
of free-born Englishmen. 




JAMES OTIS, 



128 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




115. James Otis Defends New England Merchants 
against Writs of Assistance. — As long as England allowed 
this smuggling to go on, all went well with the colonies. But 
after the Last French War the English Government decided 
to put a stop to this contraband trade. England was greatly 
in debt. Money had to be raised, and it was thought that 
by enforcing the Navigation and Trade Laws the profits of 
colonial trade would be turned over to English merchants. 

Legal papers called Writs of Assistance 

were issued (1761). They were general 

„ , .. search-warrants, which em- 

England issues ' 

Writs of Assist- powcrcd ofhccrs to go into 
■""* any warehouse or private 

dwelling in search of contraband goods. 
With these odious papers in hand, cus- 
tom-house officers could at any time en- 
ter a warehouse or a private dwelling, 
and ransack it from garret to cellar. In 
A ROYAL STAMP. tliis way many thousand dollars' worth 

of goods were seized and confiscated. 
The people were furious. James Otis, of Massachusetts, 
defended the colonial merchants in a test case. He made a 
Otis declares that great spccch, in which he earnestly contended 
•' Taxation with- ^^^^^^ ^j-^g colouists wcrc not bound to obey any 

out representa- _ J ^ ■' 

tion Is tyranny." law uot made by their own representatives. 
The keynote of his speech was "Taxation without rep- 
resentation is tj^ranny," and it sounded from Massachusetts 
to Georgia. 

116. Parliament Passes the Stamp Act. — We have 
just seen how England, in protecting her merchants, ship- 
owners, and manufacturers, had indirectly^ taxed the colo- 
nies. In thus taxing them England regarded the colonies as 
trading companies whose main purpose, from her standpoint, 

' A tax levied directly on a person or property is a direct tax. One levied on 
trade is an indirect tax. When a man pays a tax on his house, his horse and car- 
riage, or any other form of property, he pays a direct tax. When a merchant im- 
ports goods upon which a duty has been laid by the government, he pays this duty 
to the government thiough the custom-house. Such a duty is called an indirect 
tax. The taxes for the support of our national government are usually indirect. 



THE REVOLUTION 



129 



was to enrich the mother-country. The colonies had sub- 
mitted to such indirect taxation of their trade The colonies sub- 
and industries because (i) it was usual, the jn'* *» '"direct 

^ ' ' taxation for three 

world over, for colonies to have their trade reasons, 
thus taxed by their mother-country ; (2) the English navy 
protected the commerce of the colo- 
nies ; and (3) the Trade Laws were 
not strictly enforced. 

But in 1764 the Eng-lish Govern- 
ment decided to levy a direct tax upon 
them. As we have seen, England, by 
reason of the expensive Intercolonial 
Wars (1689-1763), was greatly in debt. 
The king's representative in the min- 
istry, Lord Grenville, main- 
tained that this debt was 
incurred in the defence of 
the colonies. He said that 
it was now time that the 
colonies should pay their 
share of their defence. 
Grenville seemed to forget 
that the colonies Jiad paid 
their share and were them- 
selves heavily in debt. He 
seemed to forget, also, that 
all these wars were fought 
quite as much to protect 

the English trade as to defend the colonies. Now that the 
French were driven out, a standing army of from 10,000 to 
20,000 men was to be kept up in America for the The colonies to be 
purpose, among other things, of protecting the required to help 
colonies from the Indians. A standing army, standin/Irmy 
it was argued, would prevent a repetition of an '" America. 
Indian uprising such as Pontiac's conspiracy. Moreover, if 
such a permanent standing army was to be maintained in 

'Faneuil Hall was built in 1742 by a Boston merchant named Peter Faneuil 
and presented by him to the town of Boston. The first floor was to be used as a 
11 




FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON, MASS.* 



13© 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



the colonies for their defence, it seemed fair to Grenville 
and to the king that the colonies should share in the 
expense. 

During the Intercolonial Wars the various colonies paid 
Colonies slow in their sharc of expense by raising money in 
paying taxes dur= responsc to requisition made bv the king's 

Ing the Intercolo- ^ , i' i • 

Dial Wars. agcnts. But they were very slow about it. 

It was difficult to get any legislature to vote money for 

soldiers and supplies 
unless the danger 
threatened its own 
colony. Such a sys- 
tem was weak and 
lame, and it prevented 
prompt and united 
action. Some more 
effective plan of taxa- 
tion seemed not only 
desirable but impera- 
tive. The Stamp Act 
offered such a scheme, 
and it became a law in 
March,' 1765. 

117. How the 
Stamp Act Was Re- 
ceived in America. — 
This act required the 

colonies to use stamped paper for newspapers, almanacs, 
pamphlets, advertisements, and all kinds of 

ThestampAct. ^^^^^^ documcnts. Thcsc stamps cost all the 

way from six cents to thirty dollars each. Grenville 

market house ; the second as a town hall. Just before the Revolution, so many 
public meetings were held in Faneuil Hall that it was called "The Cradle of 
Liberty." In "The Cradle of Liberty" the people met, day after day, in 1773 
(see par. 127) to decide upon some plan of action about the tea in Boston Harbor. 
The last of these meetings was so large that it had to be held in the Old South Church. 
» It is certain that up to this time, as later during the Revolution (i 775-1783). 
and the critical period (1V83-1789). the American peopk suffered greatly for lack of 
some central taxing power. England's purpose was to supply this lack by a system 
of direct taxation furnished in the Stamp Act. 




OLD STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, M.\SS. 



THE REVOLUTION 



131 



thought this tax vvouid be fair because it would fall upon 
all alike. 

But he found that the Stamp Act aroused a storm of 
angry opposition throughout the colonies.^ Organizations 
called " Sons of Liberty " were formed. Merchants banded 
together to import no more goods from Eng- its feffects upon 
land until the Stamp Act should be repealed. the colonists. 
They urged the necessity of manufacturing in the C(jlonies. 
They decided to stop eating mutton, that they might have 
more wool for making cloth. 
The day the Stamp Act went 
into effect was made a day of 
mourning.'^ Bells tolled, flags 
were lowered, and business 
houses were closed to indicate 
that liberty was dead. 

118. Patrick Henry Intro- 
duces the Virginia Resolutions. 
— In May the Virginia Legisla- 
ture met at Williamsburg. It in- 
cluded the most eminent men of 
Virginia, and they were anxious 
to act wisely. In the midst of 
the general doubt and perplexity, 
Patrick Henry ^ arose and introduced his famous resolu- 
tions. In these he declared that the " General Assembly 




PATRICK HENRY. 



* At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the people bore to an open grave a coffin 
with this inscription: "Liberty, aged CXLV years." The solemn procession 
marched to the beating of muffled drums. On reaching the grave the people listened 
to a funeral oration over Liberty, which was supposed to be lying dead, but just as 
they were lowering the cofhn some one cried, "There are signs of life! " The 
coffin was eagerly raised, and " Liberty Revived" was inscribed upon it. At once 
the people shouted themselves hoarse because Liberty was once more alive. 

' The brave women did thei' share, also. They formed organizations called 
" Daughters of Liberty," and agreed to buy no more goods imported from England. 
They formed "Spinning Societies," and wove cloth for the men to wear. 

' He was at this time just twenty-nine, tall in figure, but stc^ning, with a grim 
expression, small, blue eyes which had a peculiar twinkle, and wore a brown wig 
without powder, a "peach-blossom coat," leather knee-breeches, and yarn stock- 
ings. He had ridden to Williamsburg on " a lean horse," and carried his papers in 



132 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

of the colony had the sole right and power of laying taxes 
in the colony." An exciting debate followed. George 
Patrick Henr 's VVashington was present, and Thomas Jeffer- 
famous resoiu- son stood at the dooF earnestly listening. 
"""* He tells us later that the discussion was 

** most bloody." The opposition only fired the passion of 
Henry, and in a burst of wrathful eloquence he ended 
his speech in words never to be forgotten. 

speec . ^^ Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First 

his Cromwell, and George the Third" — "Treason! 
Treason!" wildly shouted some of the members. The 
orator paused a moment and then calmly added, " may 
profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most 
of it." The excitement caused by this speech travelled like 
wildfire through the colonies. Massachusetts and V^irginia 
had declared themselves and were ready to join hands in 
open resistance. 

Up. The Stamp Act Congress (1765). — The English 
Government made a great mistake in passing the Stamp 
England's mistake ^^^- The enforcement of the Sugar Act 
inpassingthe affcctcd the Middle and Southern colonies so 
stamp Act, little that they doubtless would not have joined 

New England in resistance to Parliament on this issue alone. 
But in the Stamp Act a grievance was presented which 
affected all the colonies alike. It furnished them a common 
ground for resistance and a common purpose for united 
action. Accordingly, the passing of the Stamp Act had a 
most important and significant result in strengthening the 
union of the colonies. In June Massachusetts sent out a 
call for a general congress to discuss the situation and agree 
upon some plan of action. Representatives from nine of 
the colonies met at New York in October and passed reso- 
lutions similar to those of Virginia. They sent a memorial 
to the king acknowledging his sovereignty, and a remon- 
strance to Parliament declaring it had no right to tax 

a pair of saddle-bags. ... As Henry came out of the Capitol a man of the 
crowd slapped hin. on the shoulder and cried : 

"Stick to us. old fellow, or we are gone." — CooKE's Virgi.via. 



THE REVOLUTION 



^33 



them. This congress should have been a warning to 
George III. 

120. Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766). — But the most 
effective action of the colonists was their non-importation 
agreements. One-third of England's trade Effect of non- 
was with the colonies. In 1772 it amounted 'mportation upon 

' ', English mer- 

to $30,000,000. Non-importation, therefore, chants, 
caused a serious loss to English merchants, and they eagerly 
begged Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. The debate 




THE " BOSTON MASSACRE." 
After an engraving by Paul Revere. 

In Parliament over the repeal showed that many English 
statesmen stoutly defended the colonies in their opposition 
to the direct taxation without representation. Said WilU 
iam Pitt in a stirring speech in the House of Commons : 
"Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted! wiiiiam pitt op- 
Three millions of people so dead to all the poses the stamp 
feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to 
be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of 
all the rest." Parliament voted to repeal the act, but de- 



134 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

clared its right to bind the colonies in all cases. It was thiij 
very right to tax an unrepresented people that the colonies 
called in question. 

121. Taxation Without Representation in America.— 
The colonists claimed that as freeborn Englishmen in Amer- 
ica they had, granted to them in their charters, the same 
rights and privileges as- freeborn Englishmen in the mother- 
country. The only difference between the man of Kent 
(England) and the man of Massachusetts was in the author- 
ity that taxed him. The government in Kent consisted of 
the king and Parliament; the government in Massachusetts 
of the king and the colonial assembly. The king could exer- 
cise no more power in Massachusetts than in Kent, while the 
taxing power in Kent was Parliament and in Massachusetts 
was the colonial assembly. This was the position taken by 
the Whig^ party in America, not by all the colonists. 

122. Taxation ^A^ithout Representation in England. — 
We cannot understand the real meaning of the Revolution 
in America without looking into a similar struggle that was 
at the same time going on in England. Some Americans 
did not oppose England and some Englishmen did not join 
hands against America. It was in each country the same 
kind of «itruggle — a struggle between hostile principles. 
There was taxation without representation in England as 
well as in America, and many Englishmen, like William Pitt, 
were as much opposed to it there as men like Samuel 
Adams and Patrick Henry were opposed to it in America. 
William Pitt and his followers represented the true feeling 
of the English people toward America. 

At this time Parliament ol:" not fairly represent the peo- 
ple of England. Great towns like Manchester, Liverpool, 
The English peo- Birmingham, and Leeds were not represented 
pie not fairly :ep- ^j. ^]j ^^^ members wcrc returned for boroughs 

resented In Par- ' . o i_ 

iiament. that had no existence except \\\ name. Such 

boroughs were called rotten ooroughs, or pocket boroughs, 

* The Whigs were those who opposed the king's schemes of taxing the Ameri- 
cans without their consent. The sunporters of the king, who at this time included 
a large part of the American people, were called Loyalists, or Tories. 



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135 



which were owned by the great families. Long after Old 
Sarum, a noted rotten borough, had no population, a mem- 
ber, representing its owner, was returned to the House of 
Commons. In a population of 8,000,000 only about 160,- 
000, or one-tenth of the men 
of voting age in England, 
could vote.^ A few great fam- 
ilies controlled the House 
of Commons. Certainly the 
mass of Englishmen could 
justly complain of taxation 
without representation. 
Among them was the great 
William Pitt, who urged upon -c: 
the people the justice of par- 
liamentary reform, with a fair 
and full representation of the 
English people in the House 
of Commons. 

123. George III. and 
Personal Government. — 
'• George, be King," said 
George the Third's mother C)^ 
when he was crowned That 
advice pleased the young 
ruler, who was then only 
twenty-two years old. His 
controlling purpose was to 
establish personal government in England. His desire for 
arbitrary power, together with his narrowness and bigotry, 
had much influence in bringing on the Rev- The views of 

olution. He cared little for the rights of oeorgeiii. 

the people. The more power they had the less he would 
enjoy. By the corrupt use of money he succeeded in con- 

* In our own country the people are fairly and equally represented in the na- 
tional House of Representatives. The unit of representation, or the number of 
people entitled to one representative since the last census of 1900, has been 194,182. 
This means that the number of representatives in Congress from any State may be 
(ound by dividing its population by 194,182. For example, Pennsylvania has 33 




OLD SOUTH CHURCH, BOSTON, 



136 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

trolling the elections. His desire was to make Parliament 
represent him and a few great families that were in the 
political ring with him. He maintained his influence large- 
ly through boss-like methods, keeping his followers under 
control by the use of an immense corruption fund. As long 
as a large number of small boroughs remained under the 
control of his friends, the king could maintain his tyrannical 
hold upon the government. 

But if the Americans should succeed in their struggle 
for " No taxation without representation," there was little 
doubt that in time Englishmen would succeed in a similar 
Why the king Struggle for parliamentary reform, or "No 
wished to tax the taxation without representation " in England. 
mercans. j£ ^j^^ Americans were not repressed, their 

success would make certain the failure of the king's pet 
scheme of personal government. King George, therefore, 
was deeply chagrined when the Stamp Act was repealed. 
He could not let the matter rest here, however, but the 
next year (1767) he again tried to force new taxes upon 
America. We shall see how well he succeeded. 

124. The New Taxes of 1767. — In 1767 Townshend, 
acting as the king's tool, induced Parliament to levy new 
port duties on a few articles, including glass, lead, paper, 
and tea. The colonies had objected to a stamp tax because 
it was a direct tax. As these new taxes were indirect, 
Townshend and King George thought the Americans might 
not refuse to pay them. But in this they wholly misunder- 
stood the temper and feeling of the American people. The 
new taxes were opposed quite as violently as the Stamp Act 
had been. 

We can easily understand the feelings of the colonists 
when we see the purpose of the taxes. The Sugar Act 
Purpose of the (scc par. 114) was to be strictly enforced by 
new taxes. commissioners who were to use the hated 

Writs of Assistance in searching for smuggled goods. The 
money raised by these taxes was to be used not only to pay 

representatives and Delaware but one. But every State, large or small, has two 
members in the Senate. 



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137 




ST. John's church, Richmond, va. 

Where the famous orator Patrick Henry made his great sj>eeck. 

the colonial governors, judges, and crown attorneys, and 
thus make all these officials independent of the people, but 
also to maintain a small English army in the colonies. The 
remainder, if there should be any, was to be used in pen- 
sioning men of influence. This last was in reality a cor- 
ruption fund to bribe men to become the king's tools. 
Thus we see that the colonists themselves were to pay the 
taxes which should keep their governors and judges inde- 
pendent of them. 

When we recall the bitter struggle between the people 
and the royal governors over this question of allowing a 
fixed salary, we can easily realize why this Bitter opposition 
measure was so unpopular. Then, too, in pay- to the new taxes, 
ing this tax the people were supporting a standing army 
whose presence was plainly intended to enforce the per- 
sonal rule of the king. In a word, the people were to 
pay taxes whose real purpose was to deprive them of the 
rights of freeborn citizens. 



J 38 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Massachusetts led in the opposition. Slie sent a circu- 
lar letter to tlie other colonies for the purpose of securing 
some united plan of action against the Townshend Acts. 
The result was that the colonies ag-ain asfreed 

Kesults. 

to import no more goods from England, and 
they thus greatly injured English ship-owners and mer. 
chants.. In the next two years English imports to New 
England fell off one-half, and to New York five-sixths. 

125. The Redcoats ^ and the " Boston Massacre " 
(1770). — King George at length decided to send troops to 
America to enforce the revenue laws. In the autumn of 1768 
they arrived in Boston. Their presence was regarded as a 
menace and was a constant source of annoyance. Quarrels 
between them and the people were of frequent occurrence ; 
and finally one evening in March, 1770, the crisis came in a 
disturbance which took place in State Street in front of 
what was then the Custom House but is now the old State 
House. Tlie soldiers fired upon the people, killing three 
and wounding many others. This was called the " Boston 
Massacre." The next day an immense town meeting was 
held, and the people, through Samuel Adams as spokesman, 
demanded that the troops should be removed. They were 
withdrawn to an island in the harbor. 

126. Committees of Correspondence (1772-1773). — The 
need of united action among the towns of Massachusetts 
was now pressing. It was hard to tell what new danger 
might at any hour fall upon the people. So Samuel Adams 
proposed, in town meeting, that committees of correspond- 
ence should be appointed in the towns. His plan was car- 
ried out (1772). In the following year Dabney Carr of 
Virginia suggested committees of correspondence for the 
various colonies. When these committees were organ- 
ized the colonies rapidlv drew closer and closer together 
in their sympathies. This was a bold step, which led 
later, as we shall see, to the Continental Congress and 
open war. 

* The English soldiers wore red uniforms. They were therefore called 
Redcoats. 



THE REVOLUTION 139 

127. Samuel Adams ^ and the "Boston Tea Party" 
(1773)' — The new duties were no more successful than the 
Stamp Act had been, for again colonial merchants refused 
to import English goods. Again English merchants begged 
for a repeal. But the stupid king could not understand the 
Americans. Thus far he had failed. He now resorted to 
a trick by which he hoped to induce the colonists to pay 
a small tax levied by Parliament. He took off all the new 
taxes except the one on tea. " There must oeorge Third's 
be one tax to keep the right to tax," he said. trick in levying 
The tax on tea was to be only threepence the tax on tea. 
a pound in America, instead of sixpence, as in England. 
This not only enabled the colonists to buy tea cheaper 
than it could be bought by the people in England, but 
also cheaper than it could be bought when the colonists 
smuggled it from Holland. But still they refused to im- 
port the taxed tea. 

The East India Company decided to ship cargoes to such 
important ports as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and 
Charleston. When the tea arrived the people Taxed tea sent to 
in New York and Philadelphia refused to let it America. 
land, and the people in Charleston stored it in damp cellars 
where it spoiled. In Boston the people were determined to 
send it back, but Governor Hutchinson refused to let this 
be done. For nineteen days the struggle continued. On 
the nineteenth day the excitement in Boston was intense. If 
the cargo of tea should remain in the harbor till the twen- 
tieth day the law permitted it to be landed. All day long the 
town meeting continued in Boston. Seven thousand men 
crowded the Old South Church ^ and the streets outside. 

* Samuel Adams has been called the " Father of the Revolution." He vi^as dis- 
tinguished for his courage and perseverance and for his ability as a leader of men. 
Like Jefferson, he was full of sympathy for the toiling masses and easily won their 
confidence. In 1774 General Gage offered him money and official advancement 
if he would give his influence and services to the king. Although Samuel Adams 
was poor, yet true to himself and to his countrymen, he scorned the offer. He was 
the first American to advocate independence of England, and was one of the fore- 
most leaders that prepared the people to adopt the Declaration of Independence. 

' The Old South Church is 'itill standing on Washington Street, at the corner of 
Milk Street. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



At nightfall a messenger brought word from the gov- 
ernor that he would not permit the tea to be returned to 
The "Boston Tea England. At once Samuel Adams, moderator 
Party." yf the meeting, arose and said : " This meeting 

can do nothing more to save the country." As if this were 
the signal, a warwhoop was heard, and forty or fifty men, 
disguised as Indians, proceeded down 
the street toward Griffin's Wharf.* 
Boarding the tea-ships they ripped 
open every chest and spilled the tea 
into the harbor. A large party ol 
people stood by while the "Indians'* 
were emptying the chests, but every, 
one was quiet and orderly. This was 
the famous " Boston Tea Party," at 
which some of the best people of Bos- 
ton were present (1773). 

128. Boston Punished for its Tea 
Party. — King George was very angry 
at these high-handed proceedings. In 
order to punish the Boston people for 
what they had done, Parliament passed 
the Boston Port Bill, which closed the 
port of Boston to all trade until the 
town should pay for the tea that had 
been destro3'ed. Another law, known 
as the Massachusetts Act, annulled the 
charter and took away free government 
from the people. A military governor, General Gage, like 
the Stuart governor, Andros, was appointed to stand for 
the tyranny of an arbitrary king. Surely George III. and 
his followers little realized the love of self-government in 
these stubborn, unruly colonists ! 

129. The Colonies Unite in Support of Massachu- 
setts. — The English Government determined to make an 
example of Boston, and hoped in this way to frighten the 

> A tablet on Atlantic Avenue now marks the spot where the Tea Party 
reached the wharf. 




OLD NORTH CHURCH, 
BOSTON, MASS. 









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Other colonies into submission. Contrary to the expecta- 
tion of the Government, the effect of the oppressive meas- 
ures was to unite the colonies in sympathetic support of 
the Massachusetts people. Through the committees of cor- 
respondence the colonies could now act together more 
promptly than ever before. Provisions were sent from 
every direction to the suffering people in Boston. Help 
came from even the far-away Carolinas. Patrick Henry* 
angrily cried : " We must fight. I repeat it, 

• .rwTi 1. "We must fight." 

Sir; we must nght. 1 know not what course 

others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me 

death." 

The excitement was everywhere intense. United action 
was a necessity. The Continental Congress, meeting in 
Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, was the out- jhe continental 
come (September 5, 1774). All the colonies congress, 
except Georgia^ were represented. This Congress declared 
the colonies had a right to govern themselves and levy 
their own taxes. It further declared that, should England 
attempt to force Massachusetts to submission, the other 
colonies would join Massachusetts in forcible resistance. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. Name four requirements of the Navigation Laws and the Acts of 

Trade. In what four ways did these laws injure the colonists ? 

2. What advantages did New England merchants have in trading 

with the French islands in the West Indies ? Do you think 
these merchants were right in smuggling? Give reasons for 
your answer. How were the Writs of Assistance connected with 
smuggling ? 

3. What is the difference between a direct and an indirect tax ? Why 

had the colonies submitted to indirect taxation ? 
■i. What was the object of the English Government in levying the stamp 
tax? From the English stand-point, give reasons why it w^as just 
that such a tax should be imposed upon the Americans. 

* This great speech by the famous orator of the Revolution was made in " Old 
St. John's Church," Richmond, Va. This church is still standing. 

' Georgia people were in sympathy with the Congress, but her royal governor 
prevented the appointment of delegates. 



142 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

5. Subject for debate : Resolved that England had the right to levy th» 

stamp tax upon the colonies. 

6. What colonies did the Sugar Act of 1733 affect most seriously? 

What colonies did the Stamp Act affect ? How, then, did the Eng- 
lish Government make a great mistake in passing the Stamp Act ? 

7. Why did England repeal the Stamp Act ? 

8. What did James Otis mean by saying that "taxation without repre- 

sentation is tyranny "? In what v/ay did Otis and those agreeing 
with him think that direct taxes should be levied in America ? 
Was Otis right in his views of taxation ? Give reasons for your 
answer, 

9. Why were William Pitt and his followers in England opposed to the 

Stamp Act ? Do you see clearly what was meant by taxation with- 
out representation in England ? 

10. What were King George's ideai» of government for both England and 

America ? If a man like William Pitt had been king of England, dc 
you think there would have been any American Revolution? Give 
reasons for your answer. 

11. What w^as the purpose of the new taxes of 1767? Why vvere com- 

mittees of correspondence organized and with what tesuit ? Find 
out all you can about the influence of Samuej Adams in these trying 
times. 

12. What events led to the Boston Tea Party ? You can easily trace 

the connection between the destruction of the tea and the Conti- 
nental Congress. 

13. Make an outline of the topics discussed under the " Causes of the 

Revolution " and try to discover a causal connection between the 
events. 

14. 1763 and 1775, between which most of these events took place, are 

•well worth remembering. 

15. In studying the Revolution, do not fail to read Fiske's War of Inde- 

pendence. 



THE WAR BEGINS 

130. Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, I775)» 
— General Gage, as military governor of Massachusetts, re- 
mained at Boston with 3,000 British troops. But the peo- 
ple outside of Boston refused to recognize his authority, 
and through their Provincial Congress governed them- 
selves as well as they could. This Congress was a provis- 
ional government, organized by the people to take the 
place of the Colonial Assembly which General Gage had 



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143 



dissolved. John Hancock was its president, and Samuel 
Adams was its leading spirit. It prepared for war. Twenty 
thousand men were ordered to be ready, at ^^^ Provincial 
a minute's notice, to march to any point of congress and the 
danger. 1 hey were called " mmute-men. 

In April General Gage received orders from England to 
arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams and send them to 
England to be tried for treason. About the same time the 
governor heard that 
the minute-men had 
collected some mil- 
itary stores at Con- 
cord, twenty miles 
from Boston. As 
Hancock and Adams 
were staying with a 
friend in Lexington, 

^^S^ English troops 
decid- sent to Lexington 
ed to «"1 Concord. 

send out troops for 
the purpose of ar- 
resting them and at 
the same time destroying the military stores at Concord. 
About midnight eight hundred English soldiers started 
from Boston. But the minute-men were on the watch. 
Dr. Joseph Warren^ sent Paul Revere and William Dawes'' 
to warn his two friends and to spread the alarm, " The 
regulars are coming ! " 

* Dr. Joseph Warren was a prominent patriot leader and a warm friend of Sam- 
uel Adams. Referring to the British soldiers he said: "Those fellows say we 
won't fight. By heavens, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood." He was 
killed at Bunker Hill. 

* William Dawes rode on horseback by way of Roxbury. Paul Revere went 
over from Boston to Charlestown in a boat and there awaited a signal which was 
▼iven by a lantern hung in the belfry of the Old North Church. At eleven o'clock 
on that beautiful moonlight night he mounted his horse. Speeding his way through 
Medford he barely escaped capture by some British officers. From Lexington, 
where his warning saved Hancock and Adams from capture, he pressed on toward 
Concord, in company with Dr. Samuel Prescott and William Dawes. Between 




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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Early next morning (April 19, 1775), when the English 
troops reached Lexington, Hancock and Adams had made 
their escape, and a party of minute-men were drawn up on 
Lexington Common. Soon the English tired upon them, 
killing seven of their number, and then passed on to Con- 
cord. Here they destroyed the small part of the military 




THE WASHINGTON ELM AT CAMBRIDGE. 



stores which the Americans had not had time to conceal. 
Again they found minute-men, in ever-increasing numbers. 
The fight at angrily facing them. At the old Concord 

Concord Bridge. Bridge thc fight began in earnest, and men 
fell on each side. From every direction the minute-men 
came flocking in, and the English were forced to retreat, 
loading and firing as they marched. 

Lexing;ton and Concord some British officers captured Dawes and Revere, took 
them back to Lexington, and there released them. Paul Revere's ride is graphi- 
cally described in Longfellow's famous poem, but some of the details are not his- 
torically accurate. 



THE REVOLUTION 145 

From behind rocks and trees, fences and barns, the min- 
ute-men shot the tired soldiers. On the English soldiers 
pushed, but they had to leave the dead and dying scattered 
along the road. At Lexington they met reinforcements 
sent from Boston. But for these fresh troops all of the 
eight hundred men sent out to Concord would Retreat of the 
have been captured. As it was, the whole Engush to Boston. 
force of about 2,000 men fied in confusion from Lexington 
to Boston, barely saving themselves from capture. The 
British lostabout three hundred men ; the Americans about 
one hundred. The British were glad to find shelter in 
Boston, around which in a few days were gathered 16,000 
Americans. It was a good beginning for the patriot army. 

131. The Colonies Unite for Resistance. — On May 10 
(1775} there was a second meeting of the Continental Con- 
gress at Philadelphia. John Hancock, of Massachusetts, 
was chosen president. The colonies voted to ~. . . 

^ The second ineet» 

unite in resisting England, and for that pur- ing of the Contu 
pose to raise an army of 20,000 men, whose "*"*"' Congress, 
expenses were to be paid by the united colonies. George 
Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Con- 
tinental arm)-. 

While Congress was passing these war measures New 
England was actually engaged in pushing the war. Sixteen 
thousand yeoman troops were already besieging Boston, 
and, on the day that Congress met, Ethan Allen from Ver- 
mont and Benedict Arnold from Connecticut led a force 
which surprised and captured Ticonderoga, ^^^^,^„^ ^^p^^^^ 
thus securing an important fort. Two days Xkonderoga and 
later Crown Point was taken. With these *^"'"" **"'"*• 
forts they secured two hundred and twenty cannon and 
other military supplies. The Americans now had control 
of the line of communication between New York and Can- 
ada. They vainly hoped Canada would join them in their 
struggle. In November, 1775, they captured St. John's and 
Montreal. On December 30th Montgomery and Arnold 
made a gallant attack upon Quebec but were driven back. 
Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded. It was 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



plain that the colonics meant to fijjht and that the war had 
already beg-un. 

132. Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775),— In the 
meantime the English troops had been increased to 10,000, 
and Howe had been sent over to take the place of Gage as 
their commander. The English general saw the impor- 
tance of occupying the heights in Charlcstown known as 




THE CRAIGIE HOUSE, WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS AT CAMBRIDGE (AFTER- 
WARD THE RESIDENCE OF LONGFELLOW). 

Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. If the Americans should 
secure them it would be very difficult for the British troops 
_. . . to remain in Boston. But the English were 

The Americans * 

fortify Breed's not quick cnough. About the middle of the 
"'"' night preceding June 17th, 1,500 Americans, 

led by Colonel Prescott and aided later by General Putnam 
and General Warren, began throwing up breastworks on 
Breed's Hill. All night they toiled, and in the morning the 
British were surprised to find that the Americans had got 
ahead of them in occupying this important position. 



THE REVOLUTION 147 

Later in the day Howe, at the head of about 2,500 men, 
tried to drive the Americans out of their intrenchments. 
The British supposed the Americans would not stand an 
attack, but in this they were mistaken. As the English 
troops marched up the hill the Americans bravely waited 
until the regulars were within fifty yards. Prescott's orders 
were "Aim low! wait till you see the whites of their eyes." 
They did wait, and then they poured forth 

1 1 11 r . 1 - 1 T-- 1 • 1 ■, General Howe 

such a deadly nre that the bnglish retreated attacks the 
down the hill, leaving the ground covered Americans, 
with their dead and wounded. Before making a second 
attack the English set fire to Charlestown, and then a 
second time were driven by American bullets down the hill. 
By this time the ammunition of the Americans had given 
out, and slowly and stubbornly they retired, fighting with 
clubbed muskets as they went. Among their dead was the 
brave General Warren. 

The British lost over one thousand, or more than one- 
third of their attacking force, while the Americans lost 
about four hundred and fifty. Although the Results of the bat. 
Americans had to give up their position they *'««* Bunker mu. 
gained a moral victory because their brave fighting inspired 
the people with courage and hope. When Washington 
heard that the raw American troops stood fire he said: 
" The liberties of the country are safe." It was a glad day 
for the American colonies. 

133. Washington Drives the British out of Boston.— 
About two weeks after the battle of Bunker Hill Washing- 
ton arrived at Cambridge and formally took command of 
the American army (July 3), under the famous elm still 
standing near Harvard University. His army Washington's 
,was in no condition for fighting. The men army, 
were in every way without proper equipment. Only a 
limited number had muskets, and very few had bayonets. 
Besides, there was a great scarcity of cannon and powder. 
Of course, under such conditions, Washington could not 
attack the enemy. But with patience and faith he awaited 
the hour when he could strike a telling blow. 

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148 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Early in March, 1776, having received cannon^ and am- 
munition, he seized Dorchester Heights, on the south 
The Americans ^'^ Bostou, and threw up intrcnchmcnts there 
seize Dorchester as the Americans had done on Bunker Hill 
**^ *' in the previous June. Howe saw that he 

must drive Washington off the heights or leave Boston. 
He proposed to storm the works, but bad weather delayed 
him until the position had been made too strong to be suc- 
cesstully attacked. The British therefore evacuated Bos- 
ton and went to Halifax. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Why were English troops sent to Lexington and Concord ? What 

results followed this expedition? 

2. Impersonating Paul Revere, write an account of his famous ride. 

What did the Continental Congress do at its second meeting? 

3. As an aid to the intelligent study of the Battle of Bunker Hill, draw a 

map of Boston and its surroundings. Why was this battle fought ? 
What effect did it have upon the Americans ? 

4. Describe the difficulties Washington had to face after taking com- 

mand of the American army, 

5. Do not fail to read, over and over again, Holmes's Grandmother's 

Story of Bunker Hill Battle. 



THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE MIDDLE 

STATES IN 1776 

134. The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) — 
When the first gun of the Revolution was fired, Samuel 
Adams stood almost alone in his wish for the political 
separation of America from England. One year later, 
^ . , , ^ however, the desire for independence grew 

Desire for indepen- ' . ^ '^ 

dence grows rapidly. The kmg had refused to hear the 

rapidly. petition sent to him by the Continental Con- 

gress; he had called the colonists rebels; he had sent his 
ships of war to burn their towns; and, worst of all, had 

* These cannon, numbering fifty, came from Ticonderoga, which had been 
captured the previous year. Along with other supplies, they were brought down 
on sledges drawn by oxen. 



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149 



hired Hessian * soldiers to make war upon them. About this 
time Thomas Paine published Common Sense — a pamphlet 
which urged many reasons why America should separate 
from England. The fact that war already existed had 
weakened the bond of union, and Paine's arguments led 
many to look with favor upon the idea of independence. 

Virginia took a leading part by instructing her dele- 
gates in Congress to vote for independence. This action 
on the part of Virginia had its due 
influence upon the other colonies. 
The Stamp Act, the Boston Port 
Bill, and the other unpopular meas- 
ures of the King and Parliament 
had drawn the colonies much closer 
together. They were beginning 
not only to realize the value of 
united action but to have a feeling 
of self-confidence leading to a de- 
sire for independence. On June 7 
Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, 
introduced a resolution "that these 
united colonies are, and of right 
ought to be, free and independent 
states."^ This resolution was sec- 
onded by John Adams of Massa- 
chusetts. Thus did the leading colonies, Massachusetts and 
Virginia, join hands in this most important step toward es- 
tablishing the nation. 

Before July all the colonies except New York had de- 

* The Hessians were so called because they came from Hesse-Cassel in Ger« 
many. Thirty thousand Hessians were hired during the war, 18,000 of whom 
were engaged the first year. Twelve thousand lost their lives during the war. 
The cost to the king was $22,000,000. The English government was driven to 
hire Hessian troops because (at this time) the war was so unpopular in England 
that it was not easy to secure English volunteers to fight in America. 

* The colonies, with the approval of Congress, began to form State govern- 
ments in 1775. The change from a colonial to a State form of government was 
slight. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, where the people had been governing 
themselves by electing their own representatives, the only change necessarv was to 
withdraw allegiance from the king. 




SAMUEL ADAMS. 



ISO 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



dared themselves in favor of independence. In the mean- 
time, the committee^ which had been appointed to prepare 
Adoption of the tlic Declaration of Independence, made its re- 
rndJrnde°nce! V^^'^' This famous paper, written by Thomas 
July 4, 1776. Jefferson, was formally adopted in Indepen- 

cencc Hall,^ Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. Realizing how se- 
rious the occasion was, John Hancock said: "We must be 




INDEPENDEN'CK IIAI.I., rillLADKLI'HI A, PA. CHESTNUT STKEKT FRONT. 

unanimous ; we must han^r to2;ether." " Yes," said Franklin, 
with his ready wit, " we must all hang- together, or else we 
shall all hang separately." 

135. The British Direct their Attention to the Middle 
States and the Hudson River. — The British^ had failed in 



'The committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin 
Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. 

*This building is still standing on Chestnut Street. 

* On June 28th the British fleet attacked Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor, 
South Carolina. Colonel Moultrie commandea the fort. His men returned the 
British fire with a precision which was surprising in untried gunners. The fleet 
retired, and South Carolina and Georgia were safe for three years. 



THE REVOLUTION 



15' 



their attempts to crush the Revolution in New England. 
They had found the opposition there so stubborn that they 
had been driven out of Boston. Their next move was to 
try to get control of the Hudson River and the Middle 
States. There were several reasons why this movement 
attracted the British. In 
this region, on account of 

the mixed char- Reasons why the 
English wished to 
secure the Hudson 
River and the 
Hiddle States. 



acter of the 
population, the 
people were 
not so united and earnest in 
their desire for independence 
as in New England. A large 
part of the inhabitants were 
Tories,^ whose influence, it 
was thought, would be of 
much service to the British. 
The Hudson River was of 
great military importance, 
because, along with Lakes 
George and Champlain, it 
made a natural high way ^ be- 
tween New York and Can- 
ada. If the British could 
secure this river, they could cut off New England from the 
other States. British forces concentrated in New England 
would soon conquer it, and they would then make short 
work of the rest of America. In a word, British control of 
the Hudson meant certain defeat for the Americans. 

136. Washington's Plan of Defending New York : Bat- 
tle of Long Island (August 27). — When the British evacu- 
ated Boston, Washington supposed that their next point of 
attack would be New York. He therefore proceeded to 



NEW YORK 

and Vicinity. 



°SlIavn-straw „ 




* Everywhere in America Tory sentiment was strongest among the non- 
English elements of the people. 

' Water routes were especially valuable then, because there were no railroads 
for the transportation of armies and military supplies. 



152 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

make ready its defences. Not knowing- at what point the 
attack would be made, he found it necessary to prepare for 
the defence of a line of twenty miles. Just above New 
York he built Forts Lee and Washington, on opposite sides 
of the Hudson. He also fortified Brooklyn Heights and 
sent Putnam with half the army to occupy them. 

In the summer General Howe arrived at Staten Island 
with a powerful fleet and an army of about 30,000 men. 
Washington had only about 18,000. On August 27 Howe 
landed on Long Island and attacked a detachment of the 
Americans under Sullivan, whose forces were outnumbered 
four or five to one. The battle was brief and one-sided. 
The Americans were defeated and driven back behind their 
.„ ^, ^ intrenchments on Brooklyn Heiirhts. If Howe 

escapes from. had followcd up his victory he might have 
Long Island.- captured the American army and brought the 
war to a speedy end, but as usual he was too slow. Two 
days later Washington, perceiving that the British fleet 
was moving to cut him off from New York, secured all the 
boats he could find, and with the aid of a heavy fog es- 
caped during the night with all his force.^ 

137. Washington's Retreat from New York and 
Across New Jersey. — Brooklyn Heights overlooked New 
York just as Bunker Hill or Dorchester Heights over- 
looked Boston. As soon, therefore, as the British got pos- 
session of Brooklyn Heights, Washington saw that his 
army could not long remain in New York.^ A little later 

* It is surprising that Washington could, in a single night, succeed in getting 
an army of 10,000 men across a river, at this point nearly a mile wide, without be- 
ing discovered. It was a brilliant piece of work, which none but an able general 
could have achieved. Here, as at Dorchester Heights, the slow-witted Howe was 
outgeneralled. 

* During the interval of about two weeks between the retreat from Long Island 
and the evacuation of New York, the sad episode of Nathan Hale's capture and 
execution occurred. Captain Nathan Hale, who was only twenty-one years of age, 
was quite willing to risk his life by going as a spy into Howe's camp on Long 
Island. Hale succeeded in getting much valuable information about the enemy's 
fortifications, and was on his way back to the American army when he was captured 
and taken before General Howe. The latter promptly ordered him to be hanged 
on the next (Sunday) morning. During the night Hale asked for a clergyman and 



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THE JUMEL MANSION, NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON S HEADQUARTERS. 



Howe, with the aid of his fleet, tried to prevent Washing- 
ton's escape by cutting off his retreat, but Washington was 
too alert for him. After more or less fighting near the 
Hudson River, north of New York, Washing- _ „.,... 

' . ' ^ The British capt- 

ton left General Charles Lee with one-half ure Forts Lee and 
the army at North Castle while he crossed w««hington. 
over to New Jersey. The British captured Forts Lee and 
Washington and 3,000 men. This was a terrible loss at a 
time when everything seemed to be going against the 
American cause. 

But even worse things were to follow. In order to pre- 
vent the British from carrying out their plan of taking 
Philadelphia, Washington put his troops between that city 
and the British army. Needing every avail- Lee's disobedience 
able soldier, he sent Lee orders to join him. «"<* jealousy. 
Lee did not move. Again and again Washington urged 
upon Lee the importance of joining their forces, but he re- 

a Bible. Both were denied hirti. He wrote to his mother and to his betrothed, but 
the letters were torn in pieces before his eyes by the hard-hearted jailer. The last 
words of the martyr-spy bore witness to his brave spirit: "I only regret that I 
have but one life to lose for my country." 



154 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

mained at North Castle. He was jealous of Washington, 
and, being second ivi command, he wished Washington to 
fail in order that he himself, by promotion, might become 
commander-in-chief. This disobedience and jealousy put 
Washington in a cri'Lical position. 

To save his army from capture he was again forced to 
retreat — this time across New Jersey. On his line of 
march he broke down bridges and destroyed supplies which 
the British hoped to secure for their army. Often the rear- 
guard was just leaving a burning bridge when the advance 
of the British could be seen approaching. Washington's 
retreat was so skilful that the British spent nineteen 
days (November 19 to December 8) in marching a little 
«7 ui ^ . over sixty miles. But his losses by desertion 

Washington's J J 

army melting wcrc great and his army seemed to be melting 
•^"^* away. When he reached the Delaware River 

he had only about 3,000 soldiers. Having previously sent on 
men to secure the boats for nearly one hundred miles along 
the river, he got his little army across just in time to escape 
the British, who arrived on the evening of the same day. 

138. Battle of Trenton. — These were indeed " dark and 
dismai " days. In the retreat across New Jersey the Amer- 
Oark outlook of ^^ans Suffered greatly. Many were without 
the American shocs and they could be tracked by crimson 
**""• foot-prints upon tlie snow. The friends of 

the patriot cause, both in England and in America, thought 
the Americans hopelessly beaten. There was doubt and 
gloom everywhere. The British generals thought the war 
was near its close, and Cornwallis was packing up to re- 
turn to England ; for as soon as the Delaware should be- 
come frozen over the British intended to march across and 
seize Philadelphia, the "rebel" capital. It would then be 
useless for him to remain longer in America. 

But Washington was not without hope. He noted with 
satisfaction the mistake the British were making in care 
Washington's Icssly Separating their army into several di- 
cians. visious and scattering them at various points 

in New Jersey. In the meantime Charles Lee had been 



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WASHINGTON'S RETREAT 

ACROSS HEW JJSRSEY. 



captured. His troops, now under Sullivan, had joined 
Washington, so that the entire army numbered 6,000. 
Washington at once planned to attack the body of Hessians 
stationed at Trenton. 

The attack was made on Christmas night with 2,400 
picked men. They began crossing the river early in the 
evening. Great 
blocks of ice, float- 
ing down the swift 
current, made the 
crossing slow and 
difficult. Massa- 
chusetts fishermen 
skilfully directed 
the boats, but it 
was four o'clock in 
the morning before 
the soldiers were 
ready to take up 
their line of march. 
A furious storm of 
snow and sleet beat 
in their faces as they 
plodded on toward 
Trenton, nine miles 
away. By daybreak 
they had completely surprised the Hessians and, after a 
brief struggle, had captured the whole force a glorious victory 
of more than 1,000 men. By one bold stroke atxrenton. 
Washington had changed defeat into victory and had in- 
spired the patriot Americans with new hope. 

Cornwallis, filled with amazement, decided to remain a 
little longer in America. Leaving a rear-guard at Prince- 
ton to protect his supplies, he speedily advanced with a 
superior force against Washington. At nightfall January 2, 
1777, only a small creek separated the two armies, just south 
of Trenton. " At last," said Cornwallis, " we have run down 
the old fox and we will bag him in the morning." But 




156 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Washington outgeneralled him. During the night he not 
only escaped, but marched around Cornwallis, defeated his 
Battle of Prince- rcar-guard at Princeton, captured five hun- 
*«"• dred prisoners, and then withdrew in safety 

to the heights about Morristown, where he went into 
winter quarters. 

139, Robert Morris Furnishes Money for the Army.— 
After the battle of Trenton Washington was in sore straits 
Great need of with his arm}^ Many of the soldiers' terms of 
money for the scrvicc wcrc about to cxpire, and these men 
soldiers. wcrc eager to get to their homes. Washing- 

ton knew that good money would hold them over for a few 
weeks. He wrote in haste therefore to his friend Robert 
Morris, a rich merchant and banker of Philadelphia, for 
$50,000 in hard cash. Morris promptly responded. Before 
light on New Year's morning he went knocking from door 
to door to secure the money from among his friends. 
The noble task of By noou the sum was made up and on its way 
Robert norris. ^q Washington. The army was saved, and 
Washington was able to bring to an end a brilliantly ex- 
ecuted campaign. Again during Greene's campaign in the 
Carolinas (1780) and during Washington's about Yorktown 
(1781), Morris came to the rescue of the army. His ample 
fortune was a silent power which none the less truly than 
the military genius of Washington made American inde- 
pendence possible. 



TO THE PUPIL 

Review the New England Confederacy, Franklin's Plan of Union, the 
Stamp Act Congress, and the Continental Congress. How do you 
account for the rapid growth of a desire on the part of the colonists 
for Independence ? In this connection, find out all you can about the 
Hessians. 

Explain the leading part taken by Virginia and Massachusetts in se- 
curing the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Review 
Berkeley in Virginia and Andros in Massachusetts. 

What were the Americans fighting for before the adoption of the Dec- 
larat'Qo of /nHepeudence ? What, after it? 



THE REVOLUTION 157 

4. Why did the British wish to secure control of the Hudson River and 

the Middle States ? Can you give any reason why the Tories were 
more numerous in this part of the country than in New England ? 

5. What plans did Washington make for' the defence of New^ York? 

6. Are you constantly using a map to aid you in forming vivid pictures ? 

7. What had Charles Lee to do with Washington's retreat across New 

Jersey? After chasing Washington across New^ Jersey, what mis- 
take did the British make ? How did Washington take advantage of 
this ? You may well closely follow Washington at this time. What 
service did Robert Morris render the American cause ? 

8. Read the account of the battle of Trenton in Coffin's Boys of '76. 



THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE MIDDLE 
STATES IN 1777 

140. The British Plan to get Control of the Hudson 
in 1777. — By the capture of New York the British held the 
lower part of the Hudson. Their plan for 1777, like that 
for 1776, was to get entire control of this river. The plan 
was three-fold: (i) Burgoyne was to come down from Can. 
ada by way of Lake Champlain ; * (2) St. Leger was to sail 
up the St. Lawrence into Lake Ontario and, landing at Os- 
wego, was to come down the Mohawk Valley; (3) and 
Howe, with the main army, was to go up the Hudson from 
New York. All three of these divisions were to meet at 
Albany. The plan looks simple. It will be interesting to 
see how the blundering of the British led to failure. 

141. Burgoyne's Brilliant Beginning. — Burgoyne, with 
an army of 10,000 men, including Canadians and Indians, 
captured Crown Point (June 26). Ten days later he forced 
the Americans to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga and hastily 
to retreat southward. Burgoyne was now confident of 
easy victory. King George clapped his hands and shouted, 
"I have beat them! I have beat all the Americans!" 
The English people thought the war would soon be over. 

* In 1776 Carleton had led a similar expedition. With 12,000 troops he started 
from Canada to secure control of the water route to the mouth of the Hudson. Al- 
though stubbornly opposed by Arnold on Lake Champlain, he captured Crown 
Point, but finding Ticonderoga strongly fortified he withdrew without attacking 
that fort. 



158 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

The Americans were everywhere disheartened. Four days 
more (July 10) found Burgoyne's army at Skenesboro (now 
Whitehall), about twenty miles distant in a direct line from 
Fort Edward. 

142. Some of Burgoyne's Difficulties.— But in crossing 
the carrying-place between Lake Champlain and the Hud- 
son serious dilificulties stood in his way. The country was 
swampy and heavily wooded. General Schuyler, who was 
in command of the Americans, felled trees across the roads 
and destroyed over forty bridges. These obstructions 
greatly delayed Burgoyne. The British advanced only 
about a mile a day until they reached Fort Edward (July 
30). As Burgoyne's supplies had to be sent to him from 
Canada, the farther he advanced the more difficult it was 
to feed his army. To keep his line of comniunication 
guarded it was necessary to leave troops in his rear. 
Every mile of advance thus compelled hy« to weaken his 
attacking force. 

143. Burgoyne's Indian Allies. — Burgoyne's Indian 
allies were a source of more weakness than strength to 
his army. They murdered and scalped peaceful inhab- 
itants every day.* These barbarous cruelties aroused 
the hottest indignation among the people, hundreds of 
whom eagerly offered their services to the American 
commander. 

144. Bennington and Supplies. — While encamped at 
Fort Edward in August, Burgoyne's army stood greatly in 
need of horses and supplies. News came that at Benning- 

* Near Fort Edward they killed Jane McCrea, a fascinating young woman 
who was engaged to be married to David Jones, an American loyalist serving as 
lieutenant in Burgoyne's army. Jones, having prevailed upon Miss McCrea to 
come within the British lines and marry him, sent a party of Indians under the 
half-breed Duluth to act as her guard. She was staying at the house of Mrs. 
McNeil, only a few hundred yards from Fort Edward. Before Duluth's party 
could reach Mrs. McNeil's house, however, another party of Indians under the 
Wyandotte Panther arrived and carried off Miss McCrea. Both parties of Indians 
met at a spring between Fort Edward and Glens Falls, and Duluth declared his 
right to take charge of the young lady. In the heated dispute which followed the 
Panther shot dead the unfortunate Miss McCrea. This is the version of the McCrea 
story as told by W. L. Stone ir the " Cyclopaedia of American Biography." 



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159 



ton, a little village in Vermont at the foot of the Green 
Mountains, the Americans had collected several hundred 
horses, as well as food supplies and ammunition. Burgoyne 
was as much in need of horses to draw his can- Burgoyne-s need 
non as of food to feed his troops. Besides, he <** supplies, 
was told that there were many Tories in the Green Moun- 
tains who would, with a little encouragement, flock to the 
British army. To win over the 
people to the British cause was no 
small part of the purpose of the 
expedition to Bennington. 

Accordingly, about 1,000 Hes- 
sians were sent to Benilington, 
where nearly all of them were 
killed or captured by a body of 
militia under Colonel John Stark. 
Burgoyne's army was badly crip- 
pled by this disaster. Instead of 

bringing recruits to Results of the 
the British the expe- British defeat at 



dition to Bennington 



Bennington. 




JOHN BURGOYNE. 



only served to make the feeling of 

the Green Mountain farmers more 

bitter against the English Government. Great numbers of 

them speedily hastened to join the American army. 

145. Failure of St. Leger. — Fortune seemed to be against 
Burgoyne. St. Leger, it w^as hoped, would gather about 
his standard many of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and large 
numbers of Tories in western and central New York. In 
due time he made his way to Oswego, and from there to 
Fort Stanwix. St. Leger laid siege to the fort. Arnold, 
with a body of troops, pressed forward to its st. Leger's 
relief. He sent a messenger ahead to report hurried retreat, 
that a large force would soon attack the British. Panic- 
stricken, the Indians at once hurried away and were soon 
followed by St. Leger himself (August 22). Burgoyne 
could no longer look for aid in this direction. His only re- 
maining hope was in receiving reinforcements from Howe. 



i6o 



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^''7^ 



The traitor Lee. 



Where Howe was and what his army was doing we will 
now consider. 

146. Why Howe Failed to Unite with Burgoyne. — 

If Howe had gone up the Hudson and joined Burgoyne at 
the time planned, ihe latter's invasion would no doubt have 
been successful. Why Howe did not do the part assigned 
him was a pjuestion that until eighty years afterward had no 
satisfactory answer. An explanation was then found in a 

document in Charles Lee's hand- 
writing that proved him beyond 
a doubt to be a trai- 
tor. Lee had been 
captured in the autumn of 1776. 
While yet uncertain of his fate, 
he told Howe that he had given 
up the American cause and of- 
fered his advice for the summer 
campaign. Lee believed it was 
more important to capture Phila- 
delphia than to get control of the 
Lee's advice to Hudsou. Heuce he 
""^®' advised sending a 

force to take that city, which the 
British general called the " rebel 
capital." Howe might thus speedily bring Pennsylvania 
under subjection to England, while Burgoyne and St. Leger 
would easily subdue New York. To .his own confusion 
and to the confusion of the British cause Howe followed 
Lee's advice. 

147. Howe's Advance Toward Philadelphia.— Howe 
opened the campaign (June 12) by an effort to draw Wash- 

inirton from his strong position among the 

Howe's vain at- '^ , x t • • i 

tempt to bring on hiUs arouud Momstown into a general en- 
a battle. gagcmcnt. But Washington was too wary to 

allow himself to be caught napping. After spending two 
or three weeks in vain attempts to provoke Washington to 
come out from his strongholds and fight in the open field 
Howe withdrew, tired out with his fruitless manoeuvres. 




LAKAYETTE. 




i6l 



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He sails to Elklon. 



Even though Howe's army numbered 18,000 men he 
dared not risk a march across New Jersey with Washing- 
ton and an army of 8,000 in his rear. So on the last day 
of June he gave up his plan of marching across New Jersey 
to Philadelphia and withdrew his army to Staten Island. 
He then sailed southward in order to reach 
Philadelphia Ify way of the Chesapeake. When 
he reached Elkton, the head of the Chesapeake (August 
25), he had been two months on the way. It was a precious 

two months to the American cause, 
as we shall now see. 

148. Battle of the Brandywine.^ 
— Howe had no sooner landed, than 
he found his watchful foe ready to 
dispute his advance upon Philadel- 
phia. Washington decided to make 
a stand at. Brandy wine Creek, where 
he met Howe in battle (September 
11), The British greatly outnum- 
bered the Americans and defeated 
Washington's thcm.^ But Wasliiug- 
skiifui retreat. ^q^ withdrew in good 
order and handled his troops with 
such skill as to keep Howe two weeks in marching to 
Philadelphia, only twenty-six miles from the battle-field. 

* When La Fayette heard that the Americans had declared their independence of 
England he was eager to cross the Atlantic and aid them. He was not yet twenty 
years of age and had just married a beautiful young woman of rank and fortune. 
But he was willing to leave behind him wife, family, and friends to fight in a noble 
cause. Accordingly, he sailed in his own vessel for this country and reached the 
coast of South Carolina in April, 1777. 

Congress made him major-general in the Continental army, where he rendered 
excellent service. He fought his first battle at Brandywine, and here was wounded 
in the leg. He freely spent his own money for clothing and equipping the soldiers 
under his command. From their first meeting a warm friendship sprang up be- 
tween La Fayette and Washington. After the war was over La Fayette twice 
visited the United States. The first visit he made in 1784 on Washington's invi- 
tation ; the second, in 1824, when he laid the corner stone of Bunker Hill monu- 
ment on the spot Nvhere the brave Warren had fallen in 1775. 

' Washington had weakened his army by sending picked troops to aid the Army 
of the North. 




BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 



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It was on September 26 when the British general marched 
into this city, a week after the first battle of Saratoga, and 
altogether too late to send troops to co-operate with the 
unfortunate Burgoyne three hundred miles away. In de- 
laying Howe Washington had made Burgoyne's capture 
certain. People did not understand the meaning of Wash- 
ington's masterful strategy, but his policy of delaying 
Howe had been fatal to the success of the British plan to 
secure control of the Hudson. 

149. Burgoyne's Surrender. — While Howe was on his 
way to Philadelphia Burgoyne was passing through a try- 
ing experience in the North. On sailing away from New 
JTork Howe left Clinton in command there. In vain Bur- 
goyne sent messenger after messenger to Clinton, asking 
for reinforcements. Without Clinton's aid success was 
very doubtful, for the Americans were increasing daily 
and were threatening to cut off Burgoyne's line of com- 
munication with Canada. The American army, now com- 
manded by Gates,^ occupied a strong position at Bemis 
Heights. The situation was desperate. Bur- Burgoyne's situa- 
goyne must force an advance. With great tion desperate. 
courage he fought a battle (September 19), in which his 
advance was stubbornly contested. Still there was no 
news from Clinton. In the meantime, Lincoln had suc- 
ceeded in cutting off the British supplies from Canada. 
Three weeks later Burgoyne, whose army was suffering 
from want of food, again attacked the Americans (Oc- 
tober 7) with the hope of cutting his way through their 
lines, and again suffered defeat. He tried in vain to find 
a way of escape but could not, for he was surrounded 
and cut off from supplies. After ten days, therefore, he 

* Schuyler was a noble man and a good general, but he had political enemies 
who succeeded in having him removed. Gates was vain and weak, and his subse- 
quent history proved him to be lacking even in personal bravery. The success of 
his army at Saratoga was due to the gallant leadership of Arnold and Morgan. 
Gates deserved no credit. His easy manner and fluent tongue enabled him for a 
time to influence people who did not understand his real character. In time, how- 
ever, his selfishness, trickery, and cowardice brought down upon him the contempt 
of honest men. 



I64 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

surrendered his entire army of 6,000 regular troops' (Oc- 
tober 17). 

150. Burgoyne's Surrender Leads tq Aid from France. 
— The surrender of Burgoyne was the turning-point in the 
Franklin's infiu- war. Its immediate result was a treaty of 

ence secures se- „ 1 1 • u i. r^ j 

cret aid from aUiance betwceu trance and our country. 

France. Shortly after the Declaration of Independence 

was signed Congress sent over three commissioners'' to se- 
cure aid from France. The principal one of these w^as 
Benjamin Franklin, then seventy years old. His simplicity 
and directness charmed the French people and won him a 
warm place in their hearts. Before Burgoyne's invasion 
France had secretly sent to the Americans much aid in the 
form of money and ship-loads of ammunition and clothing. 

But after Burgoyne's surrender it was evident that the 
Americans were fighting England with success. France. 
Resuits'of the England's traditional enemy, was then ready 
American treaty to aid them opculy. She therefore entered 
into a treaty of alliance with the United States, 
agreeing to send over a fleet and an army of 4,000 men. 
England promptly declared war against France. She also 
changed her policy toward the Americans. She repealed 
the tea duty, the Boston Port Bill, and all the other hated 
measures that had driven the colonies to take up arms 
against the king. She promised that there should be no 
more taxation without representation. But it was too 
late. The Americans would now agree to nothing short 
of independence. 

151. The Suffering at Valley Forge. — Even after losing 
Philadelphia, Washington had the courage to attack the 
British at Germantown. Although he made a well-planned 
attack, on account of a fog he suffered defeat. He then 

' The Americans when marching the PZnglish soldiers off the field of sur- 
render proudly unfurled their new flag. In January, 1776, Washington began to 
use an American flag. This was like the British flag, except that the thirteen 
stripes in the American flag took the place of the solid red of the British. Con- 
gress adopted the " Stars and Stripes " on June 14, 1777. John Paul Jones is be- 
lieved to have been the first to hoist the flag at sea. 

' These commissioners were Benjamin Franklin, Arthur I ee, and Silas Deane. 



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withdrew his army and went into winter quarters at Valley 
Forge. This was a strong position among the hills, about 
twenty miles northwest of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill 
River. But the winter was a terrible one for the army.^ 
Most of the soldiers were in rags, few had any bedding, and 
many had not even straw to lie upon at night. Nearly 3,000 
were barefoot, and could be tracked by their bloody foot- 
prints upon the frozen ground. Owing to mismanage- 
ment by Congress and the commissary department, there 
was often, for days at a time, no bread. 

The army, though weakened by suffering and loss of 
food, was greatly strengthened by the systematic military 
drill which they received from Steuben,^ a Prussian veteran 
who had joined the American cause. He was made in- 
spector-general, and he transformed the ragged regiments 
into a well-disciplined army. 

152. The Conway Cabal. — Petty politics and personal 
jealousy in Congress did much at this time and at other 
times to prevent the successful handling of washineton's 
the troops by Washington. Weak and vain enemies and their 
men, such as Gates and Charles Lee, did all P«^«y "^^heming. 
they could to destroy Washington's influence and drive him 
from his position as commander-in-chief. As Gates had 
succeeded, by his political scheming, in getting Congress to 
appoint him, in place of Schuyler, as head of the Northern 
army in 1777, so now he was busily scheming for the down- 
fall of Washington that he might himself become the head 
of all the American armies. As one of the leaders in this 

* A beautiful story is told of Washington at Valley Forge. When " Friend 
Potts " was near the camp one day he heard an earnest voice. On approaching he 
saw Washington on his knees, his cheeks wet with tears, praying to God for help and 
guidance. When the farmer returned to his home he said to his wife: " George 
Washington will succeed ! George Washington will succeed ! The Americans 
will secure their independence ! " "What makes thee think so, Isaac?" inquired 
his wife. "I have heard him pray, Hannah, out in the woods to-day, and the 
Lord will surely hear his prayer. He will, Hannah ; thee may rest assured He will." 

^ There were five eminent foreign gentlemen who fought in the American army. 
Two of these, La Fayette and John Kalb, were Frenchmen ; two others, Kosciusko 
and Pulaski, were Poles ; and the fifth was Baron Steuben, a German. These brave 
officers won the lasting gratitude of patriot Americans. 



I66 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

shameful plot was Conway, it was called the Conway Cabal. 
The taunt was openly made that while Gates had captured 
Burgoyne at Saratoga, Washington had been defeated by 
Howe on the Brandywine. But when people understood 
the meanness of all this plotting they were indignant, 
Washington appeared all the more noble in contrast with 
these selfish men, and his popularity was even greater than 
before. 

153. The British Evacuate Philadelphia (June 18, 1778). 
When the British learned that a French fleet was coming 
over to aid the Americans, they feared it might go up 
the Delaware and, co-operating with Washington, capture 
their troops in Philadelphia. So Clinton, who had suc- 
ceeded Howe in the chief command, was at once ordered 
to hasten away from Philadelphia and reinforce the army in 
Battle o«Mon. Ncw York. With 17,000 men, the British 
mouth. general began his march across New Jersey. 

Washington started in pursuit of Clinton, overtook him at 
Monmouth, and attacked him there (June 28). But, ow- 
ing to the treachery of Charles Lee,^ Washington failed to 
win a decisive victory. During the night the British hur- 
ried from the battle-field on toward New York. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. First review the reasons why the British wished to get control of the 

Hudson River and the Middle States. What was the British plan 
for 1777 ? 

2. Describe Burgoyne's brilliant beginning and his later difficulties. In 

what way did his Indian allies affect the invasion ? 

3. What were the purposes and the results of the expedition against 

Bennington ? Explain the failure of St. Leger. 

4. Why did not Howe sail up the Hudson to jo;n Burgoyne ? In what 

way did Charles Lee show himself to be a traitor to the American 
cause ? What v^ras his advice to Howe ? 
6. Why did not Howe march across New Jersey in his attempt to capture 
Philadelphia ? Trace his route by water to Elkton. In what way 
did Howe waste valuable time ? 

^ For his shameful retreat and disobedience of orders Lee was tried by court- 
martial. He was suspended from his command for one year. Later he was ex- 
pelled from the army. 



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6. How did Washington aid the Northern army to capture Burgoyne ? 

7. Give reasons for Burgoyne's failure. 

8. What were the most important results of his surrender? How had 

France aided us before this surrender? After France entered into a 
treaty of alliance with the Americans what change did England 
make in her policy toward them ? 

9. Be prepared to write five minutes on any of the following topics : The 

suffering at Valley Forge, the Conway cabal, the British evacuate 

Philadelphia. Contrast Washington with such men as Lee and 

Gates. 
10. Imagine yourself to have been with Washington's army at Valley 

Forge in that trying winter and write an account of your personal 

experiences. 
u. Read Scudder's George Washington. 



WARFARE ON THE BORDER AND ON THE SEA 

154. England's Numerous Wars. — England's war with 
France made it necessary for her to protect her colonies in 
various parts of the world. This prevented her from con- 
centrating her forces in America. Within the next two 
years she also became implicated in war with Spain and 
Holland ; hence we need not be surprised that the English 
did but little fighting in America during 1778 and 1779. 

155. Weakness and Difficulties of the Americans.— 
The United States was equally unable to engage in exten- 
sive military operations. The country was very weak in 
point of wealth and population. The principal industries 
were farming, fishing, ship-building, and commerce, and 
these, especially the last three, had naturally been much 
interfered with by the war. The Continental Congress 
had but little authority, and steadily lost influ- The continental 
ence until it commanded but little respect. It congress haa 
could not enlist a soldier or build a fort, be- * epo^e""- 
cause it had no power to levy taxes. In course of time the 
States paid little heed to the requisitions for money which 
Congress made upon them. Under such circumstances 
Congress had great difficulty in raising money enough to 
carry on the war. 

Although Congress had no money and no means of get- 

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ting- any, it could issue paper promises, and this it did in 
immense quantities. These paper promises were called Con- 
Continentai tincutal currcucy, and, like all such promises, 

currency. they wcrc Valuable only in so far as people 

had confidence in the ability of the government to redeem 
them. As people lost respect for Congress, this paper cur- 
rency fell in value. Before the close of 1779 the coin value 
of this Continental currency was only two cents on the dol- 
lar, and in the early part of the following year its coin 
value was nothing at all. " Not worth a Continental " 
recalls the money trials of the Revolution. 

156. Use of Indians by the English. — The difficulties 
of the situation were enhanced by the hostility of the orig- 
inal owners of the soil. We have seen how Burgoyne em- 
ployed Indians to help him. It was a part of the plan of 
the English to get all the aid they could from the Iroquois 
in New York and from the Indians west of the Alleghanies. 
These powerful tribes, furnished with arms, ammunition, 
provisions, and sometimes with British leaders, were a seri- 
ous annoyance to the people on the frontier. 

The struggle between 
the backwoodsmen and the 
red men was 
of great im- 
portance. The 
English Gov- 
ernment wished to coop up 
the Americans between the 
Alleghanies and the Atlan- 
tic. For, as long as the western country remained un- 
settled, English merchants could continue to grow rich on 
the immensely profitable fur trade with the Indians. The 




Importance of the 
struggle between 
backwoodsmen 
and the Indians. 



A REVOLUTIONARY FLINT-LOCK 
PISTOL. 



THE REVOLUTION 169 

Americans were eager to make settlements west ot the 
Alleghanies, but before they could occupy the land they 
had to conquer the Indians. Daniel Boone, George Rogers 
Clark, John Sevier, and James Robertson were prominent 
leaders in this western movement for conquest. The strug- 
gle east of the Alleghanies was for independence in terri- 
tory already acquired ; the struggle west of the Alleghanies 
was for the conquest of new territory. 

157. George Rogers Clark Marches Against the 
British Posts North of the Ohio. — When the war began 
the British had possession of all the territory north of the 
Ohio between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies. Colonel 
Hamilton, the English governor of that re- 

. , , , , . , 11 .1 * . Hamilton's plans. 

gion, wished to drive out all the American 
settlers. He encouraged the Indians to roam over the 
country, burning, murdering, and scalping without mercy. 
Colonel George Rogers Clark, a backwoodsman of Ken- 
tucky, which was then a part of Virginia, decided to put a 
check upon Hamilton's plans. Clark got together a small 
body of volunteers, who numbered less than two hundrea, 
and with these he boldly set out to capture the British posts 
north of the Ohio. In May, 1778, Clark's men 
made rude flat boats and rafts and floated * »e«pe 
down the Ohio to a point south of the Tennessee River. 
Here they met a party of hunters who consented to act as 
guides overland to Kaskaskia in the southwestern part of 
Illinois. Having surprised and captured this post, Clark 
sent a small force to seize Cahokia (Illinois), from thirty to 
forty miles northwest of Kaskaskia. This expedition was 
successful, and a message was received about the same time 
that Vincennes had taken the oath of allegiance to America 
and that the American flag floated over the fort there. 

158. Clark Secures Control of the Northwest. — Hear- 
ing of Clark's success, Hamilton, who was at Detroit, at 
once prepared to march against him. As Hamilton marches 
soon as possible the expedition started from aga'nst ciark. 
Detroit toward Vincennes. In four or five weeks Hamilton 
captured Vincennes and threatened to advance uDon Clark. 



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When the news reached the Illinois towns there was great 
alarm. Clark's situation was now critical. With scarcely 
rrtore than one hundred men he was too far away to secure 
reinforcements from Virginia. Hamilton had five hundred 
men, including Indians, and could easily get reinforcements 
from his red friends. 

In the midst of the excitement Clark got news that 
Hamilton had postponed further operations for the winter, 

and was holding Vincennes 
with only eighty men in the 

Clark's expedition garrison. Al- 
to Vincennes. thoUgh it WaS 

midwinter, Clark promptly 
decided to march across the 
country and attack Hamil- 
ton at Vincennes, two hun- 
dred and forty miles away. 
He started from Kaskaskia 
(February 7, 1779). It was 
a fearful march of sixteen 
days, five of them spent in 
wading over the drowned 
lands of the Wabash, 

The water was often 
three or four feet deep 
and sometimes reached the 
men's chins. The weather 
was bitterly cold. During the last six days of the march 
the men, drenched and half-frozen, had no regular meals, 
Clark's heroic and wcrc wholly without food for two days, 
^ofk,. But Clark pressed steadily forward. On 

reaching Vincennes he attacked the fort with such vigor 
that he forced Hamilton to surrender (February 24, 1779). 
He had done a heroic piece of work. In capturing Vin- 
cennes Clark and his brave backwoodsmen finished the 
conquest of the territory in the Northwest and opened 
all this vast region to American settlers. The importance 
of this conquest will be appreciated when we see its ei- 




CLARK ON THE WAY TO KASKASKIA. 




MAP SHOWINO THS 

WAR IN THE SOUTH 

AND THE 

KORTHWEST TEURITOHY.g^ 

^Vashinrtoa'a Koute tc 
VorktovTD- — — — _. ^.- .. 

Clark's Expedition ^r-. 

Urccac'3 Rccrcai ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 

Scale of Vies 
P 50 100 19 



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fects upon the treaty of peace at the ch)sc of the Rev- 
olution. 

159. The American Navy. — Up to this time all the fight 
ing, so far as we have seen, had been on land, but there was 
serious trouble on the sea also. When the war began the 
Americans were without war vessels, because up to this 
time they had been under the protection of England. Be- 
fore the close of 1775, however, Congress had ordered a 

small navy of thirteen vessels to be 
built, nearly all of which were cap- 
tured during the war or burned to 
avoid capture. As a consequence 
we were much crippled for means 
of transporting troops by water. 
After recognizing our independence 
France aids us (i778), France made 
with Jier fleets. scvcral attempts to aid 
us witii her strong fleets, but owing 
to the supremacy of the English 
navy these efforts were of little ser- 
« i liyvpr' vice before the siege of Yorktown. 

*M lm,7 '5^ Indirectly, however, they were of 

great assistance, because they kept 
England busy on various parts of 
the sea and in this way withdrew 
her strength from America. 

160. American Privateering. — While England had little 
to fear from our navy, she suffered much from American 
privateers. Even as early as 1776 they captured three 
hundred and fifty English vessels, a few of which were 
loaded with powder and supplies for the British army. So 
much damage did they inflict upon England's commerce 
that her ship-owners and merchants became bitter in their 
opposition to the war. Governor Hutchinson of Massachu- 
setts said there were 70,000' New England sailors at one 
time on privateers. The estimate was too high, but with- 

' There were two reasons why it was easier to get men to engage in privateering 
than to enlist in the army : (i) Most of the men on these privateers were fishermen 




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173 



out doubt many more than this number of Americans en- 
gaged in privateering during the war. 

161. Paul Jones and the American Navy. — John Paul 
Jones, the naval hero of the Revolution, was a Scotchman 
by birth. At an early age he emigrated to America, and had 
been engaged in commerce many years before the outbreak 
of the war. Being placed by Congress in command of a 
small ship, he cap- 
tured many vessels 
in the English Chan- 
nel and thoroughly 
frightened the 
people as he sailed 
along the coasts of 

dand and Scot- 



En* 

land threatening the 
towns. At length, 
through the help of 
Franklin and the 
French king, he was 
placed in command 
of a small squadron. 




THE BONHOMME RICHARD AND THE SERAPIS. 



between the 
" Bonhomme 
Richard " and the 
" Serapis." 



His flag-ship was called the BonJioimne 
Richard. Sailing along the eastern coast of England he 
saw several English merchantmen convoyed by two men- 
of-war. At seven o'clock in the evening (Sep- Desperate fight 
tember 23, 1779), his ship attacked the larger 
of the two, the Serapis. A desperate fight 
followed. During the action the firing on 
the Richard slacked. The English commander shouted to 
Jones, "Have you struck?" Jones promptly answered, 
" I have not begun to fight." The two vessels coming in 
touch, he lashed them together with his own hands and for 
two hours longer continued the deadly struggle. At last 
some of Jones's men, from the main-yard of the Richard, 
dropped hand-grenades among the English sailors. One of 

and sailors who, as we have already found, were thrown out of employment by 
English cruisers ; (2) privateering was far more profitable than service in an ill- 
paid army. 



174 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

these caused an explosion of a powder chest. This de- 
moralized the English crew, and their commander struck 
his colors. Jones had lost in killed and wounded one hun 
dred and sixteen men, and the Richard was sinking. It was 
a tremendous struggle and a great victory, and it caused 
the name of John Paul Jones to be spoken of with gratitude 
throughout America. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. In what part of the country was most of the fighting in 1775 ? In 1776 

and 1777 ? ReView^ the leading events of these three years. 

2. Why was there little fighting in 1778 and 1779 ? Notice with care the 

weakness of the Continental Congress and the disastrous effects of 
the Continental currency. 

3. How did the English make use of the Indians? Give reasons for the 

importance of the struggle between the backwoodsmen and the Ind- 
ians in the region west of the Alleghanies. 

4. What was the purpose of George Rogers Clark's expedition ? Trace 

it on the map. What did Clark accomplish in the Northwest? 

5. Imagine as vividly as you can his heroic expedition against Vincennes 

and write an account of it. 

6. Why w^ere the Americans without war vessels at the beginning of the 

war ? How were they crippled for lack of a suitable navy during the 
Revolution ? In what way did France aid them w^ith her fleets ? 

7. Who was Paul Jones ? What service did he render the Americans ? 
•8. Read Roosevelt's Winning of the West for a good account of what 

the Westerners did during the Revolution. 



WAR IN THE SOUTH AND THE SURRENDER OF CORNWAL- 
LIS (1780-I/81) 

162. Reasons Why the British Tried to Conquer the 
South. — After failing in New England and the Middle 
States, the British directed their energies to the South. 
Their plan was to conquer Georgia and then get control of 
the Carolinas and Virginia. They knew that Georgia, be- 
ing weak, could not offer much resistance, and that the 
Tories, who were numerous in the Carolinas, would join 
them. Moreover, should England fail in overthrowing 
American independence, the control of the South would 



THE REVOLUTION 175 

help her, at the close of the war, in confining the Ameri- 
cans within a smaller territory than would be otherwise 
possible. 

163. First Successes of the British. — As we have seen, 
there was little fighting anywhere in America in 1778 and 
1779. The British had captured Savannah in 1778, but it 
was not until the spring of 1780 that they began the serious 
work of conquering the South. General Lincoln was in 
command of the American army in the South and was 
stationed at Charleston. Clinton, coming down from New 
York with a laro;'e force, succeeded in penning , . , „ 

o . . Lincoln surren- 

him in this place and forcing his surrender ders to cunton at 
(May 12), with about 3,000 Continental troops. Charleston. 
Well satisfied with this beginning, Clintonreturned to New 
York and left Cornwallis in command of the British forces 
in the South. 

After Lincoln's surrender at Charleston, Congress sent 
General Gates down to take command of the American 
troops. Gates, whose head had been turned by his capture 
of Burgoyne at Saratoga, went South confident of success. 
He reached the army on July 19 and at once planned to 
make an advance upon Camden. This was Defeat of Gates at 
the most important place in South Carolina, Camden. 
because all the principal roads, leading from the North 
and from the coast, centred here. He was met by Corn- 
wallis (August 16) and badly defeated. This was the sec- 
ond American army destroyed in the South within three 
months. 

Gates rode off the battle-field in such confusion of mind 
that he did not stop until he was more than sixty miles 
from Camden. In utter disgrace he retired 

r . , ill 1 r 1 • Gates in disgrace. 

irom the army, to be heard of no more durmg 
the war. As Gates was leaving his Virginia plantation to 
take command of the army in South Carolina, his friend 
Charles Lee had said to him, " Take care that your 
Northern laurels do not change to Southern willows." But 
Gates was bound to fail. He was too self-satisfied to listen 
to any advice, even that of his officers. 

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176 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

164. Battle of King's Mountain. — Cornwallis now ad- 
vanced iiilo North Carolina. At the same time he sent 
1,200 men, mostly American Tories under the dashing Fer- 
guson, to enlist Tories in t!ie mountainous regions of South 
Carolina. Hearing of this movement, a body of American 
backwoodsmen hastily gathered and attacked Ferguson at 
King's Mountain (October 7) before he could receive rein- 
forcements. Mis position was a strong one, but the back- 
woodsmen assailed him with great fury on three sides at 
once and killed or captured his entire force. Ferguson 
himself was killed. 

This brilliant victory so severely crippled Cornwallis that 
it has sometimes been called the Bennington of the South. 
Cornwallis was compelled to return to South Carolina in 
order to maintain control of the territory in that State. 

165. Partisan Warfare in the South. — Before returning 
to New York after the capture of Charleston, Clinton sent 
CMnton's unwise Small forccs iuto the interior of South Caro- 
prociamation. Una, and in a proclamation offered pardon to 
all who would return to allegiance to England. Those who 
would not actively aid in restoring the royal government 
were to be treated as rebels and traitors. This unwise 
proclamation compelled all citizens to range themselves on 
one side or the other. 

A bitter, bloody, and cruel partisan warfare resulted. 
Neighbor fought against neighbor, sometimes brother 
against brother, in this semi-civil war. The most noted par- 
tisan leaders on the American side were Marion, Sumter, 
Pickens, and Lee. Marion's men were without uniforms, 
without tents, and without pay. They lived 

The Swamp Fox. . , , ..■,'. 

in the swamps, and were so swilt and cunnmg 
in their attacks that their leader was known as the Swamp 
Fox. With a very small force, often less than fifty men, he 
anno3^ed beyond measure the British by rescuing prisoners 
and capturhig supply-trains, foraging parties, and outposts. 
When the American cause looked most gloomy in the 
South, these brave men, aided by noble women, kept hope 
alive in patriot hearts. 



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177 



166. Arnold in Philadelphia.— Before we follow Greene 
and Cornwallis in their final struggle for control in the 
South, let us turn to an alarming event on the banks of 
the Hudson. This was Arnold's treason, which offered the 
British an opportunity to make a third attempt to get con- 
trol of the Hudson. After 

the British left Philadelphia 
(1778) Arnold, who had not 
fully recovered from his 
wounds received at Sara- 
toga, was placed in com- 
mand there. He was pop- 
ular in social circles, which 
included many Tories, and 
became engaged to a Tory's 
daughter. Extravagant liv- 
ing followed, and Arnold 
was soon heavily in debt. 

The State government 
accusing him of dishonesty. 
Congress ordered his trial 

by court-mar- Arnold tried by 
tial. By its court-martial. 

verdict he was found guilty 
of indiscretions and mildly 
sentenced to receive a rep- 
rimand from the command- 
er-in-chief. As Arnold had 
served his country with dis- 
tinguished bravery, Wash- 
ington held him in high 
esteem and therefore gave the reproof as gently as possible. 
But Arnold was indignant. He felt that he had been un- 
justly treated, and he secretly planned revenge. 

167. Arnold Becomes a Traitor. — Arnold pretended 
that on account of his wound he was not able to engage in 
active service, and requested that he might be placed in 
command of the important position of West Point. Wash- 




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ington, suspecting nothing, gi-anted Arnold's request. The 
latter, no doubt, thought the American cause was hopeless. 
At any rate he was as eager for money as he was for re- 
venge and soon opened a treasonable correspondence with 
General Clinton, commanding the British troops in New 
York. The scheme was that Arnold should so dispose of 
his forces at West Point that this strong fort might easily 
fall into the British hands at a time agreed upon for an 
attack. 

i68. Arnold Fails, and Andre is Hanged as a Spy. — 
For weeks the correspondence between Arnold and the 




THE KSCAPr, OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. 



British commander was carried on. Arnold looked for. 
ward to a successful execution of his plot; but a few details 
were yet to be agreed upon. So, in September (1780), 
Major Andre was sent by Clinton up the Hudson to make 
final arrangements with Arnold. 

Andre sailed up the river in the ship Vulture and met 
Arnold on shore near Stony Point. An all-night interview 
followed, and morning found the transaction still unfin- 
The all-night ishcd. Bcforc Andr6 could return to the ]l(lt- 
Interview. j^-c it was fired upon and withdrew down the 

river. Andr6 then attempted to make his way to the Brit- 
ish lines by land. In disguise, therefore, and with Arnold's 



THE REVOLUTION 179 

plans of the fort between his stockings and the soles of his 
feet, the next morning he was galloping rapidly down the 
east side of the Hudson on his way to New York. His 
safe arrival would secure him honor and fame. 

Little did he know what fate awaited him. As he 
reached Tarrytown he was stopped by three militiamen 
lying in wait for any suspicious persons who might ap- 
pear. They searched him and, finding the tell-tale papers^ 
retained him as a prisoner. Arnold g-ot the , 

J- , . . AT/ Andre's capture^ 

news of the capture in time to escape. Andre 
was tried by a fair-minded court-martial and was con- 
demned to be hanged as a spy. 

Arnold received for his treason a brigadiership and 
about $30,000, but he spent the remainder of his life in dis- 
grace, justly despised by Americans and Englishmen alike. 
He had carefully kept in his possession the Arnold's disgrace 
old uniform in which he made his escape from and death. 
West Point. Just before his death he called for this and 
put it on once more. " Let me die," said he, " in this old 
uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive 
me for ever putting on any other." 

169. Greene and Cornwallis. — In the meantime the 
struggle between Greene and Cornwallis in the South was 
going on. When Gates retired from the command of the 
armies of the South, General Greene was appointed by Con- 
gress to succeed him. On reaching the Carolinas (Decem- 
ber 2, 1780) Greene had many difficulties to oreene's 
face. The British, now in control of Georgia diHicuittes. 
and South Carolina, were about to overrun North Carolina 
also. Their army. was in good condition and was led by 
such able officers as Cornwallis, Tarleton, and Rawdon. 
Greene's small forces were poorly armed, without pay and 
clothing, and sometimes even without food. The troops 
were broken in spirit and discouraged, but Greene soon 
inspired the confidence of officers and soldiers. 

He sent the brave General Morgan against Tarleton. 
They met at Cowpens (January 17, 1781), where Morgan, 
with only nine hundred men, routed the British force of 



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1,100 picked men. The British loss was two hundred and 
thirty killed and wounded and six hundred prisoners. This 
« .•.>..> * brilliant victory destroyed nearly one-third of 

Morgan's brilliant J -' -' 

victory at Cow- ComwalHs's army and, like the victory at 
•**"*• King's Mountain, seriously interfered with 

his plans. At King's Mountain Cornwallis lost his best 
corps of scouts ; at Cowpens he lost his light infantry. 
Both would have been of untold benefit to him when chas- 
ing Greene into Virginia immedi- 
ately after this battle. 

170. Greene's Retreat into Vir- 
ginia. — After his victory at Cow- 
pens Morgan joined Greene. Corn- 
wallis then chased them for two 
hundred miles northward across the 
Carolinas. In this famous retreat 
the Americans forded three rivers 
whose waters, swollen by rain- 
storms soon after the Americans 
had crossed, checked the British in 
their pursuit. Greene crossed the 
last of these, the Dan, just in time 
to escape the British, who were 
pressing closely upon his rear. 
Knowing that Greene would be reinforced in Virginia, 
Cornwallis dared not follow. 

On receiving reinforcements Greene returned and fought 
his enemy at Guilford Court House, North Carolina (March 
15, 1781). Here he was defeated, but withdrew his forces 
Battle of Quiiford i" good ordcr. This battle was fatal to the 
Court House. plaus of ComwalHs, for it so severely crip- 

pled his army — which lost about one-fourth of its whole 
number — that he would not follow Greene in his retreat. 
The remainder of the British army were tired out and 
Cornwallis retires aluiost famishcd. With his men in this condi- 
to wiiminKton. tlou ComwalHs could not return to Charles- 
ton, his base of supplies, but decided to go to Wilming- 
ton, where communication with the English fleet would 




NATHANIEL GREENE. 



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be easy. Greene's Fabian policy had been very successful. 
He had worn out the enemy and forced him to seek the 
coast for supplies. 

Greene at once greatly disturbed Cornwallis's peace of 
mind by marching back to South Carolina. Again and 
again Greene was defeated, but he skilfully handled his 
troops and inflicted severe losses upon the Greene's skui as 
enemy. Before the close of 1781 the British a general. 
held, in the States south of Virginia, only the two seaports 
of Charleston and Savannah. Greene was bold, cautious, 
active, and persevering. He had outgeneraled Cornwallis, 
the ablest English commander, and shown himself second 
only i"o Washington in military genius. 

171. Cornwallis Goes to Virginia. — Cornwallis, disap- 
pointed in the South, and regarding Virginia as the great 
storehouse of the Southern armies, now marched north- 
ward to get control of that State. Here he found a con- 
siderable force of British sent there to keep the inhabitants 
from aiding the more southern States. Arnold had set fire 
to Richmond and had destroyed much property in other 
parts of Virginia. La Fayette was there with cornwaiiis trie» 
a body of troops to look after the interests of to entrap 

the Americans. When Cornwallis reached ^^ Fayette. 
Virginia he tried to entrap La Fayette, but the wily young 
Frenchman was not to be caught. 

Cornwallis then withdrew to Yorktown, where he could 
easily communicate with the English fleet. Clinton had 
ordered him to be in readiness to send reinforcements 
to New York in case the expected French fleet should 
co-operate with Washington in trying to capture that 
place. 

172. Cornwallis, Entrapped at Yorktown, Surrenders. 
— Up to this time the French army had not been of any 
real service to the American cause, nor had the French 
fleet given much direct aid. Now, however. Direct aid from 
both their land forces and their fleet were to the French, 
help Washington in carrying out a bold plan. The latter^ 
whose army was lying on the Hudson, had been joined the 

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NELSON HOUSK, YOKKTOWN, VA. 
IVhkh ivas occupied as headijuariers by General Cornivallis. 

year before Cornwallis went to Yorktown by 6,000 fresh 
troops from France in command of Rochambeau. Clinton, 
who was at the head of the English forces in New York, 
hearing that a powerful French fleet was on its way with 
more land forces to America, feared that on its arrival there 
would be a combined attack by land and sea. 

This had been the original plan, but when Washington 
learned that the fleet Avas on its way to the Chesapeake he 
withdrew from New York and began the execution of a 
^ ., . , brilliant movement. Leaving a small force 

Washington's <=> r i • 

brilliant ou the Hudsou, hc marchcd the rest of his 

movement. army four hundred miles to reinforce La Fay- 

ette in Virginia and co-operate with the fleet in capturing 
Cornwallis. So secretly and skilfully did Washington 
make his plans that he had almost reached Maryland be- 
fore Clinton found out what was going on. 

Clinton at once sent a fleet to drive the French fleet 
away. He also sent Arnold to burn New London, Con- 
necticut, hoping thus to draw Washington back. But the 
English fleet failed in its attack on the French, and Washing- 
ton was not to be turned aside from his purpose. Rapidly 
marching to the Chesapeake, he embarked his troops at 



THE REVOLUTION 183 

Baltimore and Elkton, and united with La Fayette, who 
had already been reinforced by a French land force from 
the fleet. Cornwallis, entirely surrounded, cornwaiHs 

saw but one chance of escape. That was by surrenders, 

crossing the York River and making- a rapid retreat north- 
ward. A violent storm upset his plans. 

As his army of 8,000 was matched against an army of 
16,000, to say nothing of the fleet, a successful resistance 
was hopeless. Therefore, after a siege of about three weeks 
he surrendered his army (October 19, 1781). 

173. The End of the War and the Treaty of Peace 
(1783). — The Americans everywhere rejoiced. Congress, 
adjourning in a body, attended church to offer thanksgiving 
for the great victory. It was plain to Americans and Eng- 
lishmen that Cornwallis's surrender must end the war. 
Peace commissioners from both- countries were therefore 
appointed to agree upon a treat}^ of peace. 

The French Government tried hard to confine the Amer- 
icans to the region east of the Alleghanies. But the work 
ol George Rogers Clark and other Westerners who had 
bravely conquered and settled the vast regions ^^^^ ^ „^ ^^^ 
north and south of the Ohio, aided our com- ciark and th© 
missioners in securing for American indcpen- ^"*" 
dence the territory lying between the Alleghanies and the 
Mississippi, and between the Great Lakes and Florida. 
Florida was ceded back to Spain. 

George the Third's plan of personal government in 
America had failed. The Revolution secured independence 
in America; it overthrew the personal rule oeor e the Third 
of George the Third in England. In 1784 fails to carry out 
young William Pitt had become the real head *"* '"^"** 
of the English Government, and Parliamentary reform was 
only a question of time 



fS4 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



TO THE PUPIL 

f^ Review the attempt on the part of the British, first, to subdue Massa« 
chusetts in 1775, and second, to get control of the Hudson River and 
the Middle States in 1776 and 1777. You will remember that there 
was but little fighting in 1778 and 1779. 

,?. Why did the British in 1780 turn their attention to conquering the 
South? Take note of their first successes there. 

3. Explain why the Battle of King's Mountain was important. 

4. What was the character of partisan warfare in the South ? Look up 

facts about the Swamp Fox and his men. Subject for essay : Parti- 
san warfare in the South. 

5. What were the results of Arnold's trial by court-martial ? What 

reason did he assign for requesting that he might be placed in com- 
mand of the troops at West Point ? 

^ How was his treasonable scheme to be carried out ? What part did 
Andr6 take in this scheme ? Discuss Arnold's disgrace and death. 
Subject for essay: Arnold the traitor. 

^, What were the difficulties of Greene w^hen he succeeded Gates in the 
South ? How did Morgan's brilliant victory at Cowpens play havoc 
with the plans of Cornwallis ? 

H» What was the condition of the English army after the Battle of Guil- 
ford Court House ? What had been Greene's main purpose and how 
had he carried it out ? 

9. Why did Cornwallis go to Yorktown ? What direct aid did the 
Americans now receive from the French fleet ? Before its arrival 
what plans of attack upon the British had Washington made? 
What changes did he make in his plans after the arrival of the fleet ? 

10. Outline the events leading to the surrender of Cornwallis. What 

were its results ? 

11. Study carefully these topics: George Rogers Clark and the West; 

George the T hird fails to carry out his plans. 

12. Subject for debate : Resolved, that Greene was a better general than 

Cornwallis. Subject for debate : Resolved, that the capture of Bur- 
goyne was a greater achievement than the capture of Cornwallis. 

13. Read Simms's Partisan and the chapter on Arnold's treason ia 

Coffin's Boys of '76. Memorize Bryant's Song of Marion's Men. 



CHAPTER XIV 

THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CONFEDERATION AND THE FOR- 
MATION OF THE CONSTITUTION (1781-1789) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, IV.; Fiske's 
Critical Period of American History ; Fiske's War of Independence ; Channing's 
United States ; Hart's Formation of tlie Union ; Fiske's Civil Government. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Frothingham's Rise of the Republic; Hale's Story 
of Massachusetts; Johnston's American Politics; Hinsdale's Old Northwest; 
Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution ; Roosevelt's Winning of the West, III. ; 
Wilson's A History of the American People, HI. 

174. Congress During the Revolution. — When the col- 
onies threw off the yoke of Great Britain it was necessary 
that they should have some central authority to guide them 
in establishing their independence. To meet this need they 
formed the Continental Congress, which assumed many of 
the duties of such a government. But Congress, as we 
have seen, labored with great difficulties because it had no 
power to compel obedience. Early in the Revolution the 
people had formed State governments. They felt more 
closely in touch with these and were extremely jealous of 
any authority interfering with local control. This feeling 
found marked expression in the Articles of Confederation — 
a plan of government outlined by a committee which Con- 
gress appointed in June, 1776. 

175. Weakness of Congress Under the Confederation. 
— Under the Articles of Confederation, which did not go 
into effect until 1781 (see par, 180), Congress had but little 
power. It could declare war, but it could not raise or sup- 
port an army. It could find out the amount of revenue 
needed for the expenses of carrying on the government, 
but it could not raise a dollar by taxation. In our own 

185 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




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time the tariff supplies a large part of the government 
revenue, but as Congress could not at that time regulate 
commerce, it could not levy any duties on imported goods. 
Commerce with foreign countries and between the 
States was under the control of the States. Congress could 
do nothing but request tlic States to pay certain sums of 
money needed by the central government, and the States 

could, and usually did, re- 
fuse to notice such requests. 

The States control In fact, the 

commerce. main busiucss 

of Congress was to recom- 
mend and advise. It could 
not compel a State, or a 
citizen of a State, to do 
anything. 

176. England and Amer- 
ican Commerce. — A gov- 
ernment so weak at home 
could not command respect 
abroad. Soon after the 
Revolution, Parliament be- 
gan to enforce the restric- 
tions upon American trade 
which had threatened to 
ruin the colonial commerce. 
Of course these acts of 
Parliament embittered the 
Americans against England, and they S(night in vain for 
some wav of retaliating. Thirteen independent States 
could not, or would not, agree upon a united plan of action, 
and as Congress could not regulate commerce nothing was 
done. 

177. Commercial War Between the States.— Each 
State, managing its own commerce, tried to gain advantages 
over the other States in its trade relations. In order to in- 
crease its foreign trade, a State would sometimes make its 
duties on imported goods lower than those of a neighboring 




THREE SHILLING MASSACHUSETTS BU.L 
OF 1741. 



THE FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 187 

State. Duties were levied on goods carried from one State 
into another. For example, New York laid a duty on chick- 
ens, vegetables, and dairy products from New Jersey, and 
on firewood from Connecticut. New Jersey retaliated by 
laying a tax of $1,800 a year upon a lighthouse which New 
York had erected on the New Jersey shore, and the mer- 
chants in Connecticut began to hold meetings for the pur- 
pose of stopping all trade with New York. 

All such bickerings over inter-State trade made the 
States more jealous and unfriendly toward one another. 
And it is worthy of notice that all this increase ^^^ ress without 
of selfishness, the continuation of which could power to regulate 
only result in civil war and the political ruin '='""™*'''=^* 
of the Confederation, was brought about by the inability of 
Congress to regulate commerce. But there were other 
commercial difficulties of a serious nature. 

178. Financial Dif^culties of the Confederation. — After 
the Revolution our imports, which had to be paid for in 
specie, were so much more than our exports that the coun- 
try was soon drained of nearly all its gold and silver. Con^ 
gress was in great need of money, and there was financial 
distress throughout the country. 

179. Shays's Rebellion. — Business depression steadily 
continued to grow worse. People were in debt, their taxes 
were heavy, and they could not get money for what they 
had to sell. The consequence was that nearly all the States 
began to issue paper promises, which they called money. 
Distress was especially great among the farmers in western 
Massachusetts. Their cattle and their farms Distress of farm- 
were sold by the sheriff, and they themselves ers in western 

^ • J 1 ' , • r Massacliusetts. 

were sometimes thrown into prison for 
debt. When their State Legislature refused to issue paper 
promises in order that they might pay their debts, two 
thousand angry farmers in the region about Springfield 
and Worcester, under the leadership of Daniel Shays, sur- 
rounded the court-houses in those cities and put a stop for 
the time to all lawsuits against debtors. For a while (in the 
latter part of 1786 and early part of 1787) they liruJ things 



l88 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

their own way. They not only burned barns and carried 
off movable goods, but they tried to seize the arsenal at 
Springfield for the purpose of securing muskets and cannon. 
After about seven months the rebellion was put down by 
the State militia. 

180. Conflicting Claims to the Northwest Territory. — 
Thus we see that, b}'' reason of the inability of Congress to 
regulate commerce and to raise money by taxation, difficul- 
ties were growing day by day. There was still another 
vexing question. That was the conflicting claims to the 
territory between the Ohio and the Mississippi, known as 
the Northwest Territory. Four States claimed each a part 
or all of it. Massachusetts and Connecticut based their- 
claims to the northern part upon their chartered rights. 
New York insisted that about all of it belonged to her by 
an agreement with the Iroquois Indians. Virginia claimed 
the whole of it not only by chartered right but by the con- 
quest of George Rogers Clark during the Revolution. 

Of course these conflicting claims led to bitter disputing, 
in which Maryland took a leading part. She objected to the 
nar> land objects Ownership of the Northwest Territory by a 
to these claims. part of the States. She said that inasmuch as 
all the States had fought France and England to secure this 
territory, all ought to have a share in the ownership of it. 
Maryland therefore refused to agree to the Articles of 
Confederation until it was clear that these claims would be 
abandoned. The four States having yielded their claims, 
she signed the articles in 1781. 

In taking this position Maryland was doing a great ser- 
vice to the whole country. The common possession of the 
Results of com= Northwcst Territory by the thirteen States 
mon ownership, helped to hold the Statcs together. They all 
had an equal interest in this extensive region, whose land 
sales would enable the Confederation to get money enough 
to pay all its debts. 

181. The Ordinance of 1787. — The outcome of the dis- 
pute concerning this common ownership was the ordinance 
oi 1787, which was the most important measure passed by 



THH FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 



189 



the Confederation. This ordinance provided for the gov- 
ernment of the Northwest Territory, and for dividing it 
into five States. Education was to be encouraged, and there 
was to be religious freedom. Although runawa}' slaves 
were to be returned to their masters, slavery was to be 
forever prohibited. This ordinance was passed by Con- 




CELEBRATING IN NEW YORK THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

gress in 1787, the year of tiie formation of the Consti- 
tution. 

■ 182. Events Leading to the Constitutional Convention. 
— The many commercial and financial difficulties, ending in 
Shays's Rebellion, showed that the Confeder- The confederation 
ation was breaking down. Shays's Rebellion breaking down, 
in Massachusetts might soon be followed by similar upris- 



IQO HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

ings in other States. In the face of such dangers the Con- 
federation was ahnost powerless. A better form of govern- 
ment had therefore become a necessity, and this the Con- 
stitutional Convention devised. 

The question of the regulation of commerce led to 
the calling of the Constitutional Convention. Western settle- 
ment showed the need of connecting the East and t.ie West 
by a system of canals. As the navigation of the Potomac 
River was concerned, commissioners from Maryland and 
Virginia met to adopt some regulations for the use of this 
river by the two States (1785). When the Virginia Legislat- 
ure adopted the commissioners* report, they also voted to 
invite all the States to send delegates to a convention the 
following )^ear. This convention was to consider com- 
mercial regulations for the wtole country. As delegates 
The conference at from Only fivc Statcs met at this conference, 
Annapolis. j^gjj^ q|- Anuapolis in, 1 786, it did not seem 

worth while to discuss the business for which they were 
called together. But before adjourning, they recommended 
that delegates from all the States should meet to consider 
the Articles of Confederation and make them adequate to 
the needs of the country. 

All the States except Rhode Island appointed some of 
their ablest men as delegates to the convention, which met in 
Philadelphia (May 25, 1787) and remained in secret session 
almost four months. Washington was presiding officer of 
The Constitution this couvcntion, which framed the Constitu- 
ratified. tiou ^ for the Ncw Federal Union. The adop- 

tion of the Constitution required its ratification by nine 
States. When the ninth State ratified it on June 21, 1788, 

* Slavery Compromises in the Constitution. — In appointini; representatives to 
Congress from each State, some of the Southern States wished all the slaves to be 
counted. The Northern States opposed the countingof any of the slaves. Finally, 
it was agreed that in deciding the number of representatives from any slave State 
three-fifths of the slaves should be counted. The North, or commercial part of the 
country, wished the national government to have power to regulate commerce, but 
the South feared this power might be used to prohibit the slave trade. At last it 
was voted that Congress should have full control of commerce, but that importation 
of slaves should not be stopped before 1808. 



THE FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 191 

preparations were immediately made for the organization 
of the new government. 

183. Supporters and Opponents of the Constitution.— 
There was much opposition to the Constitution from men 
who honestly believed that too much power was ^^^ Federalist, 
ziven to the national government. These men and the Anti- 

_ Federalists 

believed that the States should have most of 
the power, as under the Confederation. Because they 
opposed the Federal Constitution they were called Anti- 
Federalists. The brilliant orator, Patrick Henry, belonged 
to this political party. Among the Federalists, or sup- 
porters of the Constitution, were Washington, Hamilton, 
and Franklin, who firmly believed in a strong central gov- 
ernment to control all matters of national interest. After 
a long struggle between these political parties throughout 
the country, the Constitution was ratified by the various 
States, and thus the New Federal Union was established. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. The period from the close of the Revolution to the adoption of t'ne 

Constitution has rightly been called the Critical Period. Ascertain 
the reason. 

2. Why was there a delay in the adoption of the Articles of Confedera- 

tion ? What is meant by saying that Congress was merely an ad- 
visory body ? 

3. What was the relation between Congress and the various States ? 

4. Be sure that you get clear ideas about the following topics: Com- 

mercial war between the States ; Congress without power to regu- 
late commerce. 

5. What financial difficulties did the Confederation have after the close 

of the Revolution ? What caused Shays's Rebellion? 

6. What claims were made by various States to the Northwest Terri- 

tory ? Why did Maryland object to these claims ? Name the lead- 
ing provisions in the Ordinance of 1787. 

7. Can you now tell why the Confederation broke down ? Outline the 

events leading to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, 
What was the position taken by thofee who opposed the Constitu- 
tion ? By these who supported it ? 



192 HIS'IOKV OF THE UNITED STATES 



CHRONOLOGY 

1765. PASSAGE OP THE STAMP ACT. 
1765. MEETING OF STAMP ACT CONGRESS. 

1767. NEW TAXES ON GLASS, LEAD, PAPER, AND TEA. 

1768. BRITISH TROOPS QUARTERED IN BOSTON. 
1770. BOSTON MASSACRE. 

1773. DESTRUCTION OF TEA IN BOSTON AND ELSEWHERE. 

1774. BOSTON PORT BILL PASSED. 

THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MEETS AT PHILADELPHIA. 

1775. April 19, FIGHT AT LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. 

May 10, CAPTURE OF TICONDEROGA AND CROWN POINT. SECOND MEETING OF 
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. 

1775. June 15, WASHINGTON APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. June 1 7, BATTLB 

OF BUNKER HILL. 

November 12, MONTREAL taken by Montgomery — Arnold's march to 

QUEBEC. 
December 30, DANIEL BOONE SETTLES IN KENTUCKY. 

1776. January I, UNION FLAG RAISED AT CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
February 27, BATTLE OF MOORE'S CREEK BRIDGE. 

June, ARRIVAL OF BRITISH FLEET IN NEW YORK BAY. June 28, ATTACK 0» 

FORT SULLIVAN, CHARLESTON, S. C. 
July 4, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY CONGRESS. 
August 27, BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND. 
September 15, AMERICANS ABANDON NEW YORK. 

October 28, battle of white plains 

November 16, SURRENDER OF FORT WASHINGTON. 
December 26, BATTLE OF TRENTON. 

1777. January 3, BATTLE OF PRINCETON. 

June 14, FLAG OF STARS AND STRIPES ADOPTED BY CONGRESS. 

July 6, BURGOYNE CAPTURES TICONDEROGA. 

August 6, BATTLE OF ORISKANY. August 16, BATTLE OF BENNINGTON. 

Sptember 11, BATTLE OF BRAND YWINE. 

October 4, BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN. October 17, SURRENDER OF BLTIGOYIOI. 

HOWE OCCUPIES PHILADELPHIA. 
X778. CONWAY CABAL. 

ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE. 

hfay, CLARK'S EXPEDITION TO ILLINOIS. 

June, ATTACK ON WYOMING. June l8, BRITISH LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. Junt 

28, BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. 
July, ARRIVAL OF FRENCH FLEET UNDER D'ESTAING. 
December 29, SAVANNAH TAKEN BY THE BRITISH. 

1779. September 22, FIGHT BETWEEN THE BOXHOMME RICHARD AND THE SERAPIS. 
SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE IROQUOIS. 

1780. May, CAPTURE OF CHARLESTON BY THE BRITISH. 
Ali,gU5t 16. BATTLE OF CAMDEN. 

September, Arnold's treason. 

1781. January 17, BATTLE OF COWPENS. 

March 15, BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE. 

September 8, BATTLE OF EUTAW SPRINGS. 

October 19 CORNWALLIS'S SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN. 



THE FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 193 

11782. November 30, preliminary treaty of peace signed. 

1783. September 3, FINAL TREATY OF PEACE WITH GREAT BRITAIN SIGNED. 
November 25, EVACUATION OF NEW YORK. 

December 4, Washington takes leave of his officers. 

1784. JEFFERSON'S NORTHWEST ORDINANCE PROPOSED. 

1786. SHAYS'S REBELLION. 

1787. NORTHWEST TERRITORY ORGANIZED, AND ORDINANCE ADOPTED.. 
^^^y 2S> CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION MET AT PHILADELPHIA. 

Sepumber 17, consiitution of the united states signed by the del- 
egates. 
4788. june 21, constitution ratified by new hampshire, securing ix» 
adoption. 



CHAPTER XV 

THE NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE AND 
THE GROWTH OF NATIONAL FEELING (1789-1829) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, IV.; An- 
drews's United States, I. ; Walker's Mailing; of the Nation ; Richardson's His- 
tory of Our Country; Wright's Children's Stories of American Progress; Hale's 
Stories of Invention ; Coffin's Building the Nation ; Hart's Formation of the 
Union; Channing's United States ; Cggleston's Household History ; Drake's 
Making the Great West; Drake's Making tiie Ohio Valley States; Barnes's 
Popular History of tiie 'United States ; Burgess's Middle Period. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: McMaster's United States, I.-IV.; Hildreth's 
United States, IV.-VI.; Schouler's United States, I.; Henry Adiams's United States, 
I.-IX. ; Brooks's First Across the Continent ; Lossing's Field-book of the War of 
1812 ; Roosevelt's Winning of the West, IV.; Roosevelt's Naval War of I8l2 
Spears's History of Our Navy : Wilson's A History of the American People 
III.; Thwaites's Rocky Mountain Exploration ; Hosmer's A History of the Mis 
sissippi Valley; Hart's How Our Grandfathers Lived; Qordy's Political History of 
the United States, I.-II. ; Parton's General Jackson ; Johnston's American Politics ; 
Lodge's George Washington; Lodge's Alexander Hamilton ; Morse's Thomas 
Jefferson ; Wharton's Martha Washington ; Bolton's Famous Americans ; Oil- 
man's James Monroe; Magruder's John Marshall; Gay's James Madison; 
Schurz's Henry Clay ; Morse's JohnQuincy Adams. 

FICTION : Martineau's Peasant and Prince; Dickens's Tale of Two Cities , 
Henty's In the Reign of Terror; Hale's Philip Nolan's Friends ; Hale's Man 
Without a Country ; Elggeston's Signal Boys; Eggleston's Captain Sam; 
Eggleston's Big Brother ; Bynner's Zachary Phips ; Seawell's Little Jarvis , 
Seawell's Midshipman Paulding. 

POETRY : Holmes's Ode for Washington's Birthday ; Key's Star Spangled 
Banner; Drake's American Flag; Holmes's God Save the Flag ; Holmes's Old 

Ironsides. 

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS IN TIIE EARLY YEARS OF THE NEW 
GOVERNMENT 

184. Washington the First President. — It wns natural 
that the people should wish George Washington to be 

. 10' 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE I9S 

che first President.* He stood for no party but was the 
choice of all the people, and he received the unanimous 
vote of the Presidential electors.' John Adams, of Massa- 
chusetts, was elected Vice-President. The inauguration 
had been planned for the first Wednesday in March, but 
travelling was so slow in those days that it was impossible 
for Congress to meet and count the electoral votes in time 
to have the inauguration before April 30. New York City 
was the capital of the country. 

The inauguration at Federal Hall was very impressive. 
The oath of office was solemnly taken, and the chancellor 
of New York, who had given it, then turned 

,1 1 1 • 1 . T 1 • /^ The Inauguration. 

to the people and cried, " Long live George 
Washington; President of the United States!" The cry 
was taken up by the throng, who, amid their joyous shouts, 
had escorted Washington from his house in New York to 
Federal Hall on his way to deliver his first inaugural. 

185. The Number and Distribution of the People. — 
According to the census of 1790 the population of the 

•George Washington, first President of the United States (1789-1797), was 
born in Westmoreland County, Va. , February 22, 1732, and died at Mount Vernon 
December 14, 1799. When he was eleven years old his father died, leaving the 
youth in care of a faithful and devoted mother. While at school George was pains- 
taking and careful with his work and excelled in such athletic sports as running, 
leaping, and wrestling. lie was so true to himself and to others that he often acted 
as a judge in deciding disputes between his young friends. In 1759 he married a 
rich young widow, Mrs. Martha Custis, whose property, added to his own large 
estates at Mount Vernon, made him a man of much wealth. His bravery, patriot- 
ism, and military skill, as shown in the Last French War, led to his being chosen by 
the Continental Congress as Commander-in Chief of the American troops during the 
Revolution. By reason of his modesty he shrank from this service, for which he was 
admirably fitted. He refused to receive any pay during the entire Revolution. It 
may indeed be truly said that he proved himself indispensable to the success of the 
Americans in that war. He was a man of commanding presence and dignified man- 
ner. I His success lay not in intellectual brilliancy, but in a well-balanced judgment, 
in a belief that right made might, and in a rare power of winning men's confidence. 
* Under Section I., Article II., of the Constitution, maybe found the following: 
•' Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, 
a number of .£"/ifrforj equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives 
to which the State may be entitled in the Congress." The people in the various 
States vote for these Presidential electors. The latter, called when taken to 
gether the Electoral College, vote directly for President and Vice-President. 



196 



HISTORY OF THE JNITED STATES 



United States was nearly 4,000,000 souls, about one-fifth of 
whom were negroes. Most of the people resided in the 
thirteen original States, not more than five per cent, being 
found west of tlie Alleghanics. The belt of settlement ex- 
tended from Maine to Florida, with an average width of two 
Well-settled hundred and fifty-five miles. The most densely 

regions. peopled rcgious were on the coast of Massa- 

chusetts, of southern New England, and of New York. 
Other well-settled regions included the Hudson River val* 










Washington's mansion — south and west fronts — mt. vernon, va. 

ley as far as Albany, the Mohawk valley, the route now fol- 
lowed by the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York across 
New Jersey to Philadelphia, and the river valleys of eastern 
Virginia. 

Virginia ranked first in population, having 532,000 in- 
habitants. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, with about 
... ■? ^0,000 each, stood next. There were no large 

Five principal ^i ' ' . . , . , ,^ 

commercial citics. 1 hc principal Commercial centres 

centres. wcrc Philadelphia, with about 31,000; New 

York, with 2.^.000; Boston, with 15,000; Baltimore, with 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POIJTICAL INDEPENDENCE 197 




WASHINGTON S BEDROOM, MT. VERNON, VA. 



13,000, and Charleston, with nearly 11,000. All these five 
cities contained fewer people than Albany or Denver alone 
contains to-day. 

186. Modes of Travel. — The people lived mainly along 
rivers or on the coast, because one of the easiest and most 
convenient methods of travel was by boat or simple conditions 
sailing packet. It is not easy for us to realize °* ''*^' 

how simple the conditions of life were in those days. Imag- 
ine our being without steamboats, railroads, electric cars, 
telegraphs, and telephones, 
and you will have an idea 
how slowly life moved in 

1789. 

The best method of 
conveying passengers and 
goods by land was the 
clumsy old stage-coach. In 
Washington's first adminis- 
tration two stage-coaches 
and twelve horses were sufficient to accommodate all the 
people and carry all the goods passing between Boston and 
New York, two of the chief commercial cen- The oid 

tres in the country. It took about as long to stage-coach, 

make the trip as it does now to travel from Boston to San 
Francisco, or from New York to Liverpool. In summer 
the stage could cover forty miles a day. In winter, when 
the snow lay upon the ground or the roads were heavy 
with mud, the distance was cut down to twenty-five miles 
a day. About ten o'clock at night the traveller reached 
the wayside inn, where he put up for the night. He was 
called at three o'clock the next morning in time to renew 
his journey for another eighteen hours. 

187. Ferries. — There were no bridges spanning large 
rivers as there are now. In going by stage from Boston to 
Philadelphia the passenger had to be ferried across eight 
or ten rivers. In a high wind these crossings were very 
dangerous, owing to great blocks of floating ice. Not un- 
commonly the ferryboat was uoset by a sudden gust of 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITKD STATES 



wind. The passage in winter from New York to Jersey 
City (then Paulus Hook) involved more risk than a trip 
from New York to Japan does now. 

188. The Mails. — To-day a number of express trains 
daily carry mail in less than six hours from New York to 
Boston, but in Washington's time a postman carried the 
mail on horseback from New York to Boston three times a 
week in summer and twice in winter. It required six days 

to make the trip in sum- 
mer and nine in winter. 
A pair of saddle-bags suf 
ficed to carry all the mail 
between these two com- 
mercial centres. Pos'- 
men carried mail frora 
New York to Philadel- 
phia five times a week, 
and were two days in 
making the journey. In 
regions remote from 
business 

The post=rider, 

centres an 
old man was often m 'de 
post-rider. While his 
horse jogged leisurely along he would while away the 
lonely hours in knitting socks and mittens or in opening 
and reading the letters in the mail-bag. 

These clumsy methods of travel and communication kept 
the people ignorant of those parts of the countr}* which 
were not near them. The Massachusetts citizen knew very 
little about the citizen of South Carolina, and neither un- 
Lack of national dcrstood the Other. Under such conditions 
patriotiBin. there was much foolish prejudice in each Sti'te 

against people in other States, and but little attachment to 
the Union. We see, therefore, that the patriotism of those 
days was a State patriotism rather than a national patriotism. 

189. Washington's Formality. — The Federalists in- 
cluded much the larger part of the wealthy and commer- 




servants' quarters, MT. VERNON, VA. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 199 




A MAIL CARRIER. 



cial classes, and were especially strong in the cities. They 
were aristocratic in their feelings and were inclined to imi- 
tate English social and official customs. Believing in a 
strong central gov- 
ernment, they wished 

the rreS- Aristocratic feel- 
idential Ings of the Fed- 
rr 1.^ erallsts. 

oince to 

be one of great dig- : 
nity. Washington 
had seen something 
of the pomp and state 
of the royal govern- 
or's court in Virginia, 
and it seems to have 
appealed to his sense 
of fitness. He there- 
fore surrounded 
himself with much 
ceremony. On state 
occasions he rode in 
a coach drawn by six 
horses, and on ordi- 
nary occasions in a 
coach drawn by four 
horses. When walk- 
ing on the street he 
was followed at a re- 
spectful distance by 
a body servant in liv- 
ery. Every Tuesday 
afternoon, from three 
to four o'clock, he held at the executive mansion a public 
reception, when he appeared in court dress, with powdered 
hair, a dress-sword at his side, and a cocked washing:ton at 
hat under his arm. Standing with his right Pubiic receptions, 
hand behind him, he bowed formally as his guests were pre- 
sented. Moreover, he allowed his birthday to be celebrated. 




A FAST MAIL — 1876. 




A TWENTIETH CENTURY FLYER. 



200 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



These things greatly displeased many people, who charged 
Washington with tiie desire to become king. They wished 
the President to dress plainly and to live as simply as an 
ordinary citizen. 

190. The New Government. — Washington's first duty 
was to organize the new government. John Jay was ap- 
pointed first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The 
cabinet is most important, because its .members are the 
heads of various executive depart- 
ments and aid the President in doing 
his official work. Washington chose 
for his cabinet four eminent citizens 
who represented both political par- 
ties. Thomas Jefferson became Sec- 
retary of State; Alexander Hamilton, 
Secretary of the Treasury; General 
Henry Knox, Secretary of War; and 
Edmund Randolph, Attorney-Gen- 
eral. 

191. Hamilton and Jefferson the 
Two Great Political Leaders. — 
Hamilton was a stanch Federalist, 
but Jefferson was a bitter opponent 
They became the respective leaders of 
the two political parties, and were soon engaged in a long 
and bitter struggle to carry out their views of government. 
The struggle was not personal. It was a struggle of prin- 
Shall the Federal ciplcs and did uot cud whcu Hamilton and 
or the state Gov. j^fferson passcd out of public life. It con- 

ernment be su- r ^ l 

preme? tiuucd Until it brought on the great Civil 

War. Shall the Federal Government be supreme over the 
State? Shall there be a liberal construction of the Consti- 
tution, so as to grant large powers to Congress and the 
President? Hamilton said "Yes;" Jefferson said "No." 
Jefferson feared that the Federal Government might be- 
come so strong as to rob the States of their powers and at 
last to drift into a monarchy. He believed that the general 
government had only such powers as were definitely 




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granted in the Constitution. In other words, he believed 
in a "strict construction" of the Constitution, 

192. Hamilton's Plan for Establishing Credit. — The 
new government had many difficulties to face. The most 
Hamilton's «nan- scrious and prcssiug of these were its debts, 
ciai policy. The old Confederation had little credit at 

home or abroad. If the United States was to lift its head 
among the nations it must first find its footing in a firm 

financial policy. Alexander Ham- 
ilton had a wonderful insight and 
clear understanding in money mat- 
ters, and he brought his sound 
judgment to the support of the 
new government. He knew that 
the only way of gaining credit is 
by paying one's debts. He there- 
fore recommended that the United 
States assume in full all the debts 
of the Confederation, both foreign 
and domestic. In regard to the 
foreign debt, Congress readily as- 
sented. After some discussion, it 
voted to pay also the domestic 
debt, or that owed to American 
citizens. 

But Hamilton was a very conservative man. He clung 
to old principles of government. He wished to establish 
a government of whose strength the nation need not be 
ashamed. In his plan for building up the nation's credit, 
therefore, he proposed that, besides its own debts, or the 
debts which had been handed down from the Confederation, 
the United States should assume the debts of the separate 
He recommends States. The Uuiou would thus establish a 
the payment of supremacv ovcr the separate States. As the 

the state debts r> i 1 .T 1 / 1^1 

by the United State dcbts wcre mostly loan- from wealthy 
states. Americans, these influential citizens would be 

attached as creditors to the Union. They would become 
directly interested in building up its financial credit. They 




ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 203 

would work to make the central government strong by giv- 
ing it a large taxing power with which to obtain a revenue 
to pay its debts. 

This part of the plan was novel and unexpected, and 
greatly alarmed the followers of Jefferson. They believed 
that the States should do a large part of the Jefferson's foi- 
governing. They dreaded more than all else Ihe^paymTiIt'oi 
a strong central government, because they the state debts. 
feared it might lead to a monarchy. They accused Hamil- 
ton of trying to rob the people of their rights by placing 
them under the rule of a king. Accordingly, the followers 
of Jefferson opposed the payment of the State debts by the 
United States, and after a bitter struggle defeated Hamil- 
ton's scheme by a narrow majority. 

Later, however, in return for an agreement to locate the 
new capital, Washington, upon the banks of Washington 
the Potomac, the Jeftersonians conceded the made the capital. 
assumption of the State debts to the followers of Hamilton. 
The measure proved one of the wisest policies ever adopt- 
ed. It was a. brilliant example of Hamilton's far-seeing 
statesmanship. 

193. A Tariff Laid on Foreign Trade. — How to raise 
the money to pay all these debts was a serious question. 
At its first session. Congress laid an indirect tax upon ves- 
sels and certain kinds of goods coming into this country 
from foreign ports. This tax, or tariff, was not only for the 
purpose of raising a revenue, but also for protecting the 
young manufactories springing up at various points in the 
United States. As this tariff did not yield rev- Tax on spirituous 
enue enough for the country's need, a direct "quo"- 

tax was laid later on spirituous liquors (1794). Direct taxes 
are not generally popular, and this one was no exception. 
It was an unpleasant reminder of the Stamp Act. We need 
not be surprised, therefore, that resistance was offered to 
this direct tax imposed by the new government. 

194. The Whiskey Rebellion (1794). — The people of 
western Pennsylvania lived so far from business centres, 
which they could reach only by poor roads, that it was 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



very expensive for them to transport their grain to market. 
There was more profit in making^ the grain into whiskey^ 
which was much less bulky than the grain from which it- 
was made. As the tax levied upon the whiskey lessened 
the profit of the f.armers, they regarded this tax as unjust. 
They therefore refused to pay it, and severely handled offi- 
cers sent by the Government to see that it was enforced. 
The people rose in arms to resist the law, but Washington 
promptly sent a body of troops, which easily put down the 
insurrection. 

195. The Invention of the Cotton-gin (1793). — The 
Whiskey Rebellion had merely a passing interest. Whit- 
ney's cotton-gin 
had a permanent 
influence upon our 
history. Let us now 
consider that re- 
markable invention. 
In 1793 Eli Whit- 
ney, a Massachu- 
setts man then liv- 
ing as a tutor at the 
home of General 
Greene's widow in 
Georgia, invented 
the cotton-gin. The 
influence of this in- 
vention upon cotton-growing, s^aver}^ and the future his- 
tory of the country cannot be measured. Before that time 
cotton was not raised to any great extent in the South. 
Without the cotton-gin a slave could separate, in a day, the 
seeds from only a single pound of cotton fibre, but now, 
with the aid of the cotton-gin, he could in the same time 
separate the seeds from a thousand pounds. The value of 
slave labor was thus greatly increased, and the planter 
could afford to sell his cotton much cheaper than before. 

At once there was a great and increasing demand for 
cotton in English as well as Northern cotton-millSj and its 




A I'RIMITIVE COTTON-GIN. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 205 



culture became highly profitable. The general belief had 
been that slavery would gradually die out all over the 
country. It did not pay in the North, where there were no 
large plantations, and 
in that region it was 

already Results of the 
disappear- invention of the 
"D i. cotton=gin. 

ing. But 

now the cotton-growers 
in the South and the 
owners of cotton-mills 
in the North had a sel- 
fish interest in the insti- 
tution. For the owners 
of cotton-mills, like the 
planters, made money 
on the ever-increasing 
demand for cotton, the price of which had been greatly 
lessened by the cotton-gin. They all thought that cotton- 
raising could not be carried on successfully without slave- 
labor. Hence the demand from this time forward for 
more and more slaves in the cotton States. 




Whitney's first cotton-gin. 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. Note the fact that Washington was President for two terms, 

1789-1797. 

2. With your map before you, study carefully the distribution of the peo- 

ple in 1790. Why did the people live mainly along rivers or on the 
coast ? 

3. Try to form vivid mental pictures of travel by the old stage-coach. 

How was the mail carried in 1790 ? How did the clumsy methods 
of travel and communication affect the attitude of the people in one 
State toward the people of another State ? On all these topics 
McMaster's History, L, will repay careful reading. 

4. What classes of people were included in the Federalists ? Discuss 

Washington's formality. 

5. What is meant by the Cabinet ? 

6. "Shall the Federal Government be supreme over the States?" 

What answer did Hamilton give ? Jefferson ? You may well keep 
this great question in mind, for it will come up again and again in 

17 



eo6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

the subsequent periods of our history. As you will find later, dis- 
agreement about the answer led at last to Civil War. What is 
meant by " strict construction " of the Constitution ? 

7. What was Hamilton's financial policy? Why did he urge that the 

United States, should assume the debts of the separate States? 
Why did Jefferson's followers oppose this part of Hamilton's plan ? 

8. Which do you think was right in his attitude toward the State debts, 

Hamilton or Jefferson ? Give reasons for your answer, 

9. Review the difference between a direct and an indirect tax. What 

indirect tax was levied ? What was its purpose .' What direct 
tax was levied ? Why was it unpopular .' 

10. What influence did the invention of the cotton-gin have upon the pro- 

duction of cotton by slave-labor ? Explain why the Southern planters 
and the Northern cotton-mill owners had, from the time the cotton- 
gin was invented, a selfish interest in slavery. 

11. For social life in New England and in other States read Coffin's 

Building the Nation. 

FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NEW 
GOVERNMENT 

196. A Period of Trial and Uncertainty for the Young 
Republic (1789-1815) — When in 1789 Washington became 
President, many intelligent people, both in Europe and 
America, doubted whether the Federal Union would live 
long. This was a reasonable doubt, for the young repub- 
Littie national ^^^ ^^^^ J^^ wcak and Called forth little na- 
feeiing In the tional feeling. A foreign traveller, visiting 
United state.. ^^^^ United States at this time, said that he 
found no Americans ; that the people were all English or 
French in their sympathies and feelings. The English 
party, or the Hamiltonians, and the French party, or the 
Jeffersonians, were almost as intense in their dislike of each 
other as were Englishmen and Frenchmen in Europe. 

Soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789), 
war began between France and England and, with short 
War between intervals of pcacc, continued until Napoleon's 
Prance and downfall at Watcrloo (1815). During this 

England. great struggle many efforts were made to drag 

the United States into the war. Both France and Eng- 
land were unwilling that this country should remain neu- 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 207 

IraL When the United States refused to form an alliance 
with either country, both of them seriously injured our 
commerce. They showed little respect for a people who 
seemed so lacking in national spirit. 

The entire period from 1789 to the close of the War of 
181 2 was one of anxiety for the well-wishers of the republic. 
During all these years the American people were engaged 
in a struggle* similar to the American Revo- From 1789 to 1815 
lution. In the earlier struggle they were *'^« Americans 

a i.^- 4. I J J * C -c ^ J struggle for in- 

nghtmg to become independent 01 bngland ; dependence of 
in the later they were striving to become Europe, 
independent of Europe. This later period culminated in 
the War of 1812, which has been rightly called the Second 
War of Independence. But from the beginning of Wash- 
ington's administration the struggle over commercial or 
other difficulties was pressing. 

197. Influence of the French Revolution upon Ameri- 
can Affairs. — The same year that Washington became 
President was also the first year of the French Revolution. 
The people of France had been so oppres- The French 

sively taxed and otherwise misgoverned that Revolution, 

they were at last ready to resort to violence against the 
French monarchy. They tore down the gloomy prison 
called the Bastile and afterward put to death the king and 
queen. In the " reign of terror" that followed thousands of 
men and women were guillotined. To add to the confusion^ 
the French Republic was soon at war with neighboring 
countries. She declared war with England in 1793. 

Hamilton and his followers took the side of England ; 
Jefferson and his supporters sympathized with the French 
revolutionists. As France had helped us in the American 
Revolution, the French claimed that we ought „, .. ^ 

' , ^ t5 Washington 

to help them in their struggle for freedom. refuses to aid 
At first Washington and the Hamiltonians, France, 
with gratitude to France for aid given us in the American 
Revolution, felt a warm interest ; but later, when the revo- 
lutionists had resorted to extreme violence to carry out their 
plans, Hamilton began to regard them with great distrust.. 



2o8 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Besides, Washington agreed with Hamilton in the belief that 
we were too weak to become involved in European wars, 
and he therefore issued a proclamation of neutralit}^ 

198. Citizen Genet Defies Washington. — The new 
French Government, the Directory, knowing that many 
Americans were in sympathy with the French revolution- 
ists, sent Citizen Genet as minister to the United States. 
In utter defiance of the President this indiscreet man tried 
to fit out American privateers to be used in destroying 
English commerce. In answer to objections from Wash- 
ington, Genet threatened to appeal to the people, hoping 
they would approve his course and take his side against 
their own President. This threat was a striking bit of au- 
dacity and showed the contempt Genet felt for our govern- 
ment. But the people sustained Washington, and at his 
request Citizen Genet was recalled. 

199. Jay's Fruitless Treaty with England. — The Eng- 
lish would not give up Oswego, Niagara, Detroit, and other 
Our difficulties Northwestcm forts which, by the treaty ol 
with England. pcacc at the closc of the Revolution, they had 
agreed to surrender. They also seriously interfered with 
our commerce by forcibly stopping and searching our ves- 
sels for deserters, and in many cases impressing our seamen 
into their service. Besides all this, they would not let us 
trade with the English West Indies. On the other hand, 
the English maintained that we had failed to keep our part 
of the same treaty by refusing to pay certain debts owed 
by Americans to English merchants, and by not making 
good the losses sustained by American Tories when they 
left their homes in this country during the Revolution. 

To settle these difficulties John Jay was sent over to 
England. As a result a treaty was agreed upon which set- 
tled nothing about the impressment of American seamen. 
ja '8 treat England refused to discontinue this practice, 

makes the Amer- but Jay fclt that in our wcak position among 
leans indignant. ^^^ natious of thc world wc must be satisfied 
with what we could get from a country so much stronger 
than our own. Washington, believing the treaty was the 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 209 



best we could arrange, urged its adoption. A large part 
of the American people were indignant. Hamilton was 
stoned while making a speech in New York in defence of 
the treaty, and Washington was so bitterly attacked and 
unjustly accused that he said he would rather be in his 
grave than be President. 

200. Political Parties.— Originally, as we have seen, 
those supporting the Constitution were called Federalists, 
and those opposing it Anti-Feder- ^^ „ , 

alists. After the Constitution went 
into effect, the Federalists, under 
the lead of Alexander Hamilton, 
favored a strong central govern- 
ment, while the Anti-Federalists, 
under the lead of Jefferson, wished 
the States to have most of the pow- 
ers of government. The Jefferso- 
nians called themselves Republi- 
cans, but since Jefferson's followers 
favored the French revolutionists, 
the Federalists called them Demo- 
crats, after the French Democrats. 
A little later they became known 
as Democratic -Republicans. In 
Andrew Jackson's administration 
they were called Democrats, and the name has remained 
till the present time. 

201. The "XYZ Papers."— Our trouble with France 
was by no means settled by the recall of Genet. When the 
Jay treaty with England was ratified, the The French an- 
French were so angry that they sent home 57 J^"***** 
our minister and recalled their own from the 
United States. French cruisers openly attacked our mer- 
chant vessels. The country was too weak for war, and 
President Adams ^ wished to avoid one if possible. 

1 John Adams, second President of the United States (1797-1801), was born 
at Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1735 and died July 4, 1826. After graduating from 
Harvard he became a lawyer. He was a prominent member of the Continental Con- 




JOHN ADAMS. 



210 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

The French having promised to receive an embassy 
with honor, President Adams sent over three envoys, John 
Marshall, afterward Chief Justice, Charles Pinckncy, and 
Elbridge Gerry to set things right. Upon their arrival 
they were not received with respect. They were boldly 
informed that peace with France could be secured only on 
two conditions: (i) That a large sum of money should be 
paid to members of the Directory, and (2) that an ad- 
ditional sum should be loaned to France for carrying on 
her wars. The papers reporting to Congress these shame- 
ful propositions were signed, not by the names of the secret 
agents representing the French Government, but by the 
letters X Y Z. Hence they were called the " X Y Z Papers." 
Pinckney's indignant reply was, " Millions for defence, but 
not one cent for tribute," and this became a rallying cry 
throughout the United States. 

Congress organized an army and put Washington at the 
head of it. In the meantime, the French continued to capt- 
serious trouble urc our vcsscls and scizcd a thousand of them. 
with France. Soou a State of War existed on the sea, where 

Commodore Truxton defeated and captured two French 
frigates.^ These defeats recalled France from her insolent 
attitude, and when President Adams again sent over envoys, 

gress, and proposed Washington for commander-in-chief of the American troops. 
Being an eloquent advocate of independence, he did much to bring about apolitical 
separation from England. He was one of the three commissioners who negotiated 
a treaty of peace with Great Britain at the close of the Revolution and afterward 
became the first American minister to England. His honesty and courage won the 
admiration of his friends, but his obstinacy and lack of tact involved him in many 
quarrels. 

John Adams was inaugurated at Philadelphia, which had taken the place of New 
York as the seat of government. During his term of office, in 1800, Washington 
became the capital. 

'Out of the excitement that thrilled the people the song, "Flail, Columbia," 
sprang. The words were written by a lawyer of Philadelphia, Joseph Hopkinson, 
and set to the music of the march composed for Washington's inauguration. " Hail, 
Columbia" was first sung at a theatre in Philadelphia. The applause was tremen- 
dous. Men rose to their feet, throwing their hats into the air, and women vigor- 
ously waved their handkerchiefs. Again and again the audience called for the 
song until it had been sung nine times. In a few weeks " Hail, Columbia" was 
known Uy thousands of enthusiastic Americans. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 2U 

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was then at the head of affairs, 
made things satisfactory to this country. 

202. Alien and Sedition Laws (1798). — These difficul- 
ties with France stirred the patriotic feelings of our peo- 
ple and for a time strengthened the Federalist party. Its 
leaders went too far, however, when they passed the Alien 
and Sedition Laws. Many of the Democratic-Republican 
newspapers were under the influence of Frenchmen who 
had come to live in the United States. These men used 
their papers to make bitter and slanderous attacks upon 
President Adams and the government. Naturally the Fed- 
eralists, with their leanings toward a strong central govern- 
ment, believed that such attacks weakened the Union by 
lessening the respect of the people for it. They there- 
fore passed the Alien Law, which gave the President 
power to send out of the country any foreigner whom 
he might think dangerous to its peace. The Sedition Law 
gave him power to fine or imprison any one who might 
conspire against the government or publish anything evil 
against it. 

This law violated the first Amendment to the Consti- 
tution by interfering with the freedom of the press, and 
aroused the Democratic-Republicans to a high state of in- 
dignation. They said such laws were tyrannical and proved 
the desire of the Federal leaders for something like a mon- 
archy. The Virginia Resolutions, written by The Virginia and 
Madison, and the Kentucky Resolutions, writ- l\ions oS-'^"" 
ten by Jefferson, expressed their dislike of the 1799). 
Alien and Sedition Law^s. These Resolutions not only de- 
clared the laws to be unconstitutional, but the Kentucky 
Resolutions went so far as to say that a State might right- 
fully nullify any act passed by Congress that w-as not con- 
stitutional. Nullifying a law is declaring it not binding, and 
therefore nullification is a most dangerous doctrine ; for if 
each State should reserve the right to refuse obedience to 
any law which in its judgment violates the Constitution, 
that document would in time be worth as little as the paper 
it is written on, and the Federal Union would fall to pieces. 



212 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

203. Chief Justice Marshall's Influence in Strengthen- 
ing the Federal Union. — That this result was not brought 
about was largely due to the influence of one man. Just 
before going out of office in 1801, President Adams ap- 
pointed John Marshall/ of Virginia, as Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court. He heartily believed in the liberal con- 
struction of the Constitution, and for thirty-five years his 
decisions as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court had great 
influence in making the general government superior to the 
States in all questions affecting the common interests of the 
whole people. It has well been said of him : " He found 
the Constitution paper, and made it power; he found it a 
skeleton, and clothed it with flesh and blood." 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Review the significance of the following dates : 1492, 1588, 1689. 

Now add to these 1789. Why is it significant 1 Can you think of 
any reason for the lack of national feeling among the Americans in 
1789? 

2. Look up in Coffin's Building the Nation the causes of the French 
Revolution. 

3. Why was the entire period from 1789 to 1815 one of trial and anxiety 

for the Young Republic? Do not forget these dates. 

4. Why did the French Revolutionists maintain that we should aid them 
in their w^ar w^ith England? What did Washington think of aiding 
them ? Was he right or vrrong ? Give reasons for your answer. 

5. What difficulties did w^e have with England ? Why was Jay's treaty 

unsatisfactory to a large part of the American people ? Do you like 
it or not ? Give reasons for your answer. 

6. Review the origin of the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist parties. 
What were these parties now^ called ? What was the principal 
difference between them ? 

7. How did the French indicate their anger about the Jay treaty ? Ex- 
plain clearly the *' X Y Z Papers." What recalled France from her 
insolent attitude toward the Americans ? At this juncture John 
Adams, our second President, was in office. He served one term, 
1797-1801. 

* John Marshall was a great American and left his impress upon the government 
as few men have done. His personal appearance was striking. He was tall and 
slender, with black hair and small eyes. Simple in dress and modest in manner, 
his warm heart won the truest friendship of those who knew him. With rare grasp 
of mind and greatness 0/ purpos'', he labored to make the Union strong. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 213 

8. What facts led the Federalists to pass the Alien and Sedition laws? 

What were these laws ? What were the Virginia and Kentucky 
Resolutions ? Mark them well. They were a significant and 
dangerous step toward the nullification and secession movements of 
later years. 

9. What kind of man was Chief Justice Marshall ? Memorize the quota- 

tion which well indicates the work of this remarkable man, the 
greatest chief justice we have ever had. 
10. If you will read Martineau^s Peasant and Prince you will have cleaf 
ideas about the leading facts of the French Revolution. 



SETTLEMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

204. Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican 
Leader, becomes President.* — Before beginning to discuss 
the settlement of the Mississippi valley let us consider for a 
moment a statesman whose greatest act was the purchase 
of Louisiana, a large part of this valley. That statesman 
was Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, who became the third 
President (March 4, iSoi).^ Up to that time the national 
government had been under the control of the Federalists, 
and many people believed that the election of the Demo- 

* Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-1809), was bom 
at Shadwell, Virginia, in 1743 and died at Monticello, Virginia, July 4, 1826. At 
seventeen years of age he entered the College of William and Mary, where he was an 
earnest student. He afterward became one of the most learned men of his times, 
being known as the "Sage of Monticello." He was also a daring horseman and an 
excellent violinist. After graduating from college he studied law and soon exer- 
cised a large influence over the politics of his State and his country. He was 
elected a member of the Continental Congress and, as chairman of the committee 
to draft the Declaration of Independence, wrote practically all of that remarkable 
document. At the end of his Presidential term of ofifice he retired to his beautiful 
home, Monticello, where he spent the remaining years of his life. 

''The Presidential election for a successor to John Adams caused much bitter 
feeling between the two political parties. The Federalists cast their votes for John 
Adams and C. C. Pinckney ; the Republicans, for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron 
Burr. As the two latter each received seventy-three electoral votes, neither was 
elected, and the election was. thrown into the House of Representatives, which, ac- 
cording to the Constitution, was to choose one of them for President. The contest 
was prolonged and exciting, but ended, as above stated, in the choice of Jeffersoif 
as President. Burr became Vice-President. This unfortunate contest resulted in 
the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, in accordance with which the Presi- 
dential electors must vote separately for President and for Vice-President. 



214 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



cratic-Republican President would lead to the country's 
ruin. In this, of course, they were greatly in error, for 
Jefferson, as President, moved slowly in changing- the pol- 
icy of the government, and did many things to make the 
general government stronger than it had been before. 

205. Jefferson's ** Republican Simplicity." — During the 
eight )'ears of his Presidency Jefferson wielded a large per- 
sonal influence over the people. Form and ceremony were 

distasteful to him. 
He believed the Pres- 
ident should be sim- 
pie in dress and man. 
ner and mingle freely 
with the people. In 
his " red waistcoat, 
yarn stockings, and 
slippers down at the 
heel," he presented a 
striking contrast to 
the courtly appear- 
ance of Washington. 
On the day of his 
inauguration he went 
on foot to the Capi- 
tol, in his ordinary 
dress, escorted by a 
number of his politi- 
cal friends.' It be- 
came his custom, 
when visiting the Capitol, to ride on a horse, which he 
tied with his own hands before entering. He did not hold 
Jefferson the Idol Weekly rcccptions, but he entertained hospi- 
of the masses. tably and allowed persons wishing to see him 
to call at any time. Though the Federalists did not be- 




SCHOOL-HOUSE WHERE THOMAS JEFFERSON 
RECEIVED HIS EARLY EDUCATION. 



' Henry Adams, in Vol. I., pp. 190, I91, of his History of the United States, 
denies the truth of the story that on the day of his inauguration "Jefferson roda 
on horseback to the Capitol and, after hitching his horse to the palings, weot in to 
take his oath." 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 215 

lieve it best for men of all classes and conditions to vote, 
Jefferson, because of his great faith in the people, was an ad- 
vocate of universal manhood suffrage. We need not be sur- 
prised, then, to learn that he became the idol of the masses. 
206. Pioneers in the Mississippi Valley before the 
Revolution. — We have seen how Boone, Clarke, Sevier, 




MONTICELLO, THE HOME OF JEFFERSON. 

and Robertson were leaders among the pioneers who went 
from Virginia and the Carolinas across the mountains be- 
fore the Revolution and made settlements in j^^ pack=hor8o 
Kentucky and Tennessee. Their only roads and the forest- 
were the forest-trail and the river ; their only 
means of travel and transportation the pack-horse and the 
canoe. Daring and full of the spirit of adventure, they re- 
lied quite as much upon the rifle as upon the axe and the 
hoe. Leading their pack-horses along the rough mountain 
pathways, they built log huts for dwellings, and with their 
rude tillage raised a few vegetables and a little corn for food. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



207. Life in the Backwoods of Kentucky and Tennes- 
see in Pioneer Days. — Often the pioneer's cabin was built 
of rough logs and had only one room, with a ladder reach- 
The cabin and i»a ^^ a loft abovc, where the children slept. 
its furniture. Articlcs of clothiug hung upon pegs that were 

thrust into the sides of the house. A rough piece of 
board resting upon four wooden legs served as a table, 
three-legged stools were used as chairs, and wooden bowls 

as dishes. Life was everywhere 

plain and simple, and society dem- 
ocratic. Land was plentiful, and 
every head of a household had his 
own farm, usually of about four 
hundred acres. 

The settler relied upon his rifle 
for meat. He dressed much like 
an Indian, often ap- 
pearing in a fur cap, a 
fringed hunting-shirt of buck-skin. 




The settler. 



and moccasins and leggings made 



THOMAS JEFFERSON. 



Amusements. 



of the skins of wild 
animals. Amusements 
took a practical turn, the pioneers 
making them a pleasurable means 
of getting their work done. Hence, log-rollings, corn- 
huskings, and quiltings were common. After the work 
was out of the way the guests sat down at a table loaded 
with an abundance of such coarse foods as the backwoods 
afforded and such beverages as rum and whiskey. Then 
followed dancing, wrestling, racing, and various other 
sports calling for strength and skill. 

208. The Flatboat and the Ohio River.— Soon after the 
ordinance of 1787 was adopted, and the fertile region lying 
between the Ohio and the Mississippi was opened for set- 
Westward tlcmeut, population began to stream westward, 

emigration. Yankees from New England, Scotch from 

New York, and Germans from Pennsylvania formed the 
bulk of this second emigration to the West. This wave of 



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A PACK-HORSE. 



migration was greatly 

accelerated by the use of 

the flatboat, which could 

be employed as soon as 

the Ohio River was 

reached. By means of 

the flatboat the settler 

could carry many more 

goods than with the 

pack-horse. He could 

also travel much more 

rapidly, especially when 

going with the current. For this reason it was natural 

that this westward movement should follow the lines of 

the Ohio and the streams flowing into it from the north. 

Along their banks such towns as Marietta, Cincinnati, and 

Louisville rapidly sprang up. 

209. Twofold Use of Rivers. — The rivers were valu- 
able, not only for bringing the new settlers to their homes, 

but also as highways for their trade. The settlers could 

not profitably carry their bulky produce, such as corn. 

meal, flour, ham, and ba- 
con, on pack-horses over 
the mountains to eastern 
business centres; but they 
'/y could easily float their 
produce on rafts or flat- 
boats down the currents 
of the Ohio and Missis- 
sippi Rivers to New Or- 
leaus. There, instead of 
attempting the slow and 
laborious return against 
the current, they disposed 
of their cargoes and sold 
their boats as lumber. 

The goods received in 
exchange were put aboar<;J 




A HAND COKN-MILL. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




A SWEEP-MILL. 



vessels sailing- for Baltimore or some other Atlantic port, 
and from there taken over the mountains to the Ohio valley. 
The roundabout Several' months were required to make this 
trip the settler roundabout trip. But this circuitous route 

must make In ^ i • i i ttt 

trading. was the only one by which the Westerners 

could get such home comforts as clothing, furniture, and 
other manufactured products. As the Mississippi was their 
outlet into the world, their prosperity depended upon its 
free use for navigation. 

210. Napoleon's Scheme to Plant Colonies in the Mis- 
sissippi Valley. — By the treaty of 1763 France had given 

up to Spain all claim to 
the Mississippi valley 
13'ing west of the river. 
The dreams of La Salle 
for establishing a New 
France in America had 
failed to be realized. 
But by 1800 Napoleon, 
who had become the all- 
powerful ruler of France, 
conceived a similar and 
equally brilliant plan. 
He determined to secure 
Louisiana — which in- 
BKEAKiNG ii.Ax. cludcd all the country 




NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 219 

from the Mississippi to the Rockies between Texas and 
Canada— and to people it with French colonists. New 
France in America would thus be revived, and the Amer- 
ican Union would be hemmed in between the Mississippi 
and the Atlantic. 

211. France Regains Louisiana from Spain (iSoo).— 
Napoleon forced Spain to cede Louisiana to France, and 
thus carried out the first part of his plan. He next sent an 
army to subdue the island of San Domingo. His purpose 
was to make this island a base for his extensive operations 
in^ the Mississippi valley. But in this attempt he met a 
mighty opposition. Toussaint L'Ouverture, a native black 




AN OHIO- RIVER FLATBOAT. 

general, fought the French troops with desperate heroism. 
Although he was taken prisoner, yellow fever finished the 
work which he had begun. Many thousand French soldiers 
perished, and the island was not subdued. ^ ^ 

T-«i . , 1 1 r 1 French army for 

Ihe army intended for the support of the Louisiana detained 
colonists in Louisiana never reached New «* *«" """""g*- 
Orleans. War between France and England was again 
about to break out, and Napoleon was too busy in Europe 
to think of colonizing America. 

212. Alarm in the United States.— When the Americans 
found that Louisiana had again passed into the hands of 
France they were alarmed. It was bad enough to have the 
territory colonized by feeble Spain. It was far worse to 



220 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

have for a neighbor a dangerous rival like France. This 
feeling was especially prevalent among the settlers west of 
the Alleghanies. Their alarm was increased when they 
learned that the Spanish authorities at New Orleans had 
refused to let them fioat their products to that town and 
there reship them. Closing the Mississippi to their trade 
meant their commercial ruin. Their indignation was at 
TheindiKnant ^ whitc heat and they talked loudly of war. 
Westerners talk of They urgcd Jcffcrson to get control of the 
war with Spain, [^i^^^^ q^ which Ncw Orleans stood, and of 
the territory including the east bank of the river to its 
mouth and extending some distance eastward. The free 
navigation of the Mississippi would thus be assured. 

213. The United States Purchases Louisiana (1803). — 
President Jefferson therefore sent Monroe over to France 
as special envoy to aid Livingston, the American minister, in 
securing West Florida and New Orleans. It was an oppor- 
tune time for the Americans. As Napoleon was greatly in 
need of money for his war with England, he was willing to 
sell much more territory than the envoys were instructed 
to buy. The result was that we purchased from France in 
1803, for $15,000,000, the immense Louisiana territory, a 
larger area than the United States of that day contained.' 
By this purchase Jefferson was taking much greater liber- 
ties with the Constitution than the Federalists had ever 
done. His action was directly contrary to the teachings of 
his party. He realized this, but the purchase was so plainly 
for the interests of the people that he felt justified in mak- 
ing it. 

The purchase proved to be the greatest act of his admin- 
istration and had four important results : (i) It kept France 
Results of the from planting colonies which would be our 
purchase. near neighbors; (2) it prevented England from 

getting possession of the territory by treaty with France ; 
(3) it gave us the control of the Mississippi River ; (4) it 
added much to the strength of the national government. 

• Before 180(3 the area of the United States was 827,844 square miles. The 
Louisiana purchase added 1,171,931 square miles to this area. 




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Singularly enough, Jefferson, the writer of the Kentucky 
Resolutions, boldly did that for which the Constitution 
made no express provision. The Federalists Jefferson's bold 
declared the purchase to be unconstitutional, action. 
and many people opposed it on the ground that we already 
had territory enough. But the great majority, especially 
in the West, warmly applauded Jefferson's course. 




214. Lewis and Clark's Expedition^ through the Loui- 
siana Territory to the Pacific (1804-1806.) — Previous to the 
purchase of Louisiana, Jefferson sent to Congress a mes- 
sage recommending that an exploring party be sent to the 
Pacific Ocean. Accordingly a party of thirty men under 
Lewis and Clark started from St. Louis in 1804 and trav- 
elled in boats to the head-waters of the Missouri, nearly 
three thousand miles from its mouth. Here they procured 
horses from some Indians, made their way over the moun- 

* In accordance with Jefferson's long cherished desire this expedition was dc' 
sigjied primarily to explore the Missouri River to its source and then by the easiest 
toute to reach and explore some river flowing into the Pacific Ocean. 



222 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

tains, and again taking to boats, floated down the Columbia 
River to the Pacific. After nearh^ two years and a half, 
the party returned with a most interesting account of their 
experiences. Besides giving the American people some 
Results of the idea of the vast extent and great wealth of 
expedition. ^\^q Louisiana purchase, Lewis and Clark's 

expedition gave the United States a basis for claiming the 
Oregon Country some years later. 

215. War with the Barbary States (1801-1815). — In the 
year 1801 the attention of the American people was sud- 
denly drawn toward the East. The Barbary States in 
eluded the petty Moorish powers of Morocco, Algiers, 
Tunis, and Tripoli, on the northern coast of Africa. Foi 
some time their pirates had been seriously disturbing Amer- 
ican commerce in the Mediterranean. They captured and 
destroyed our vessels, confiscated the cargoes, and made 
slaves of the crews. In many cases large sums were paid 
to ransom Americans from slavery. 

Like the various nations of Europe, the United States had 

been protecting her commerce by paying tribute to these 

Barbary States. But the pirates grew continually more 

agtj-ressive. Tripoli became so insolent that 

War with Tripoli. ^^'^,, , xr • i r> 11 1 

finally the United States declared war against 
that country (1802). By 1805 Tripoli was forced by our 
navy to make peace and to stop interfering with our com- 
merce. For some years the Barbary pirates did not interfere 
virith American vessels, but it was not till 181 5 that their at- 
Results of war tacks wcrc entirely suppressed. The war wath 
with the Bar- these statcs had two good results: (i) It forced 
bary States. Jeffersou to increase the navy ; (2) it was a 

training school by which our officers and seamen greatly 
profited in the War of 181 2. 

216. Fulton's Steamboat and River Navigation. — The 
war with the Barbary States brought the young republic 
into a more prominent position in the eyes of Europe, and 
showed that the American spirit would have to be reckoned 
with. But, important as the results were, they sank into 
comparative insignificance when placed beside an event 




lewis's first glimpse of THR ROCKIES. 
(Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804.) 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 223 

which, at the time, attracted no special attention. In the 
year 1807 Robert Fu/ton, after many trials and difficul- 
ties, succeeded in applying steam to boats as a motive 
power. The outcome of his efforts was the steamboat 
Clermont, a clumsy affair that people ridiculed by calling 
it" Fulton's Folly." On the day advertised 

e •, , • 1 - • f -VT XT 1 1 T The 'Clermont, •• 

for its trial trip from New York, a large crowd 
gathered on the river side, expecting to witness a fail- 
ure. When the boat slowly moved off they began to jeer, 
but when finally the success of the experiment was no lon- 
ger in doubt they were equally hearty in their applause. 
The Clermont steamed up the Hudson from New York to 
Albany, 150 miles, at the rate of nearly five miles an hour. 
At once the boat became a wonder to the people, and they 
came many miles to see it. 

Four years later (181 1) the first steamboat on Western 
rivers was launched on the Ohio at Pittsburg. As this 
strange-looking object passed down the Ohio at what was 
then regarded as wonderful speed, the people on the river, 
banks were filled with awe and fear. The flying sparks, 
especially at night, and the unusual noise of the wheels, 
made some of the more ignorant onlookers believe the end 
of the world was near. This boat was soon ,, «... 

Use of the steam- 

f olio wed by others, and the great network of boat on western 
rivers became thick with steam-driven craft, '■'^*"- 
defying wind and current. The steamboat was a great ad- 
vance upon the flatboat. Western settlers could now more 
easily and cheaply reach the fertile land in the great valley 
and send their produce to good markets. The steamboat 
gave a fresh impulse to Western migration also. Population 
increased and many new settlements sprang up. 

217. Burr's Conspiracy. — While holding the office of 
Vice-President, Aaron Burr — a brilliant and villainous man 
— killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, because Hamilton 
had prevented him from being made President of the United 
States, and later from being elected Governor of New York. 
Having failed to satisfy his political ambition in the East, 
Burr got together soldiers and adventurers from the West- 



224 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

ern States, and sailed down the Ohio and the Mississippi tG 
carry out some schemes not jet fully understood. It is 
thought that his plan was to establish a personal govern- 
ment in the Southwest, possibly including the Spanish 
possessions in Mexico. In due time he was taken and tried 
for treason, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. He 
died many years later, disgraced by his own acts and 
despised by the American people. 



TO THE PUPIL 

X. How did Jefferson illustrate his republican simplicity ? Compare hi» 
ideas of formality with those of Washington. Why would the 
Federalists naturally favor pomp and ceremony on the part of the 
President ? 

2. Prepare to write five minutes about any one of the following Western 

leaders : Boone, Clark, Sevier, and Robertson. Describe the life of 
the pioneer settlers. 

3. What advantages had the flatboat over the pack-horse ? What were 

the two uses of rivers ? With your map before you, outline the 
roundabout trip the Western settler had to make in trading. 

4. Napoleon is one of the most interesting men in all history. Can you 

not look up some facts about his life and his plans of conquest ? Any 
short French History will give you all you need. Perhaps after 
you have read such a brief sketch you will wish to read what you 
can find about the great general in Henry Adams's History of the 
United States. 

5. What was Napoleon's scheme to plant colonies in the Mississippi 

valley ? Compare this scheme with La Salle's. In this connection 
review La Salle's work. In what respect v^as La Salle like 
Napoleon ? 

6. What country owned Louisiana at this time ? What had the island of 

San Domingo and the black general Toussaint L'Ouverture to do 
with Napoleon's scheme for colonizing the Mississippi valley? 
Why did the cession of Louisiana to France alarm the people of the 
United States ? 

7. What steps did Jefferson take which finally led to the purchase of 

Louisiana ? What were the results of this purchase ? 

8. Do not fail to get a clear idea of the territory that was included in 

Louisiana. How many States like your own did its area equal ? 

9. How^ did the steamboat aid Western migration ? 

10. Find out what you can about Burr's relations with Hamilton. Com< 
pare the two men. What was Burr's Conspiracy ? 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 225 

II. Tn connection with the study of Aaron Burr, read Hale's Man With- 
out a Country, The chapter in Shaler's History of the United 
States, Vol. I., on the Mississippi valley, is worth careful reading. 



THE WAR OF l8l2, OR THE SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 

218. England Claims the Right to Search American 
Vessels and Impress American Seamen. — England still 
continued to search our vessels and to impress into her 
service American seamen. She claimed that . ^ 
bnglish seamen, havmg once been English man, always an 
subjects, always remained such ; or, as the say- Englishman." 
ing ran, " Once an Englishman, ahvaj^s an Englishman." 
On the other hand, our government claimed that an English- 
born subject could become an American by naturalization. 

There was doubtless cause for annoyance on both sides. 
Many English seamen, on reaching American ports, easily 
procured fraudulent naturalization papers, and Fraudulent nat- 
entered the American service. As a result, an •"■"'"zation. 
English captain was often embarrassed to find that, after 
making a port and visiting the town, he had no crew with 
which to put to sea again. And why was American service 
preferred ? Because better treatment and higher pay were 
received on American vessels. 

The commanders of English war-ships therefore insisted 
upon searching our vessels and taking off American seamen 
on the charge that they were deserters. English cruisers 
hovered about the more important American ports, and in 
their search for seamen boarded every vessel entering or 
leaving the harbor. Before the War of 18 12 began nine 
hundred American vessels had been searched, and more 
than 4,000 Americans had been impressed into the English 
service. 

These insults and outrages reached their most irritating 
stage in the attack made on the frigate CJiesapeake by the 
British man-of-war Leopard, off the coast of Virginia. The 
English captain made a demand for some English deserters 
who, he claimed, were on the American frigate. When 

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220 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

the American commander protested, the Englishman fired 
a broadside, killing or wounding twenty-one of the Ameri- 
Thc "Leopard" ^'^" crew. The Chesapeake, not being in a con- 
fires upon the dition to make resistance, surrendered. She 
Chesapeake. ^^^^ boardcd, and four of her crew were ar- 
rested for deserters and taken on board the Leopard. One 
of these was afterward hanged as a deserter and the other 
three, who were Americans, were released. 

The people were deeply excited, and in some quarters 
there was a clamor for war. But as the country was ill 
prepared for war, Jefferson could go no further than to en- 
ter a protest, and warn English men-of-war 
to leave American waters. In return, the 
British Government made a tardy and half-hearted apol- 
ogy, but declared its purpose to continue the impressment 
of seamen. 

219. England and France Greatly Injure American 
Commerce (1806-1807). — England and France, now at war, 
tried to starve each other into submission. Each country, 
in her efforts to injure the other's trade, seriously crippled 
American commerce. During the early years of the war 
our vessels had done much of the carrying trade of the 
world, and our merchants had been growing rich. But in 
1806' and 1807 England issued her "Orders in Council," 
England's "Or- which forbadc neutral vessels to trade with 
ancTNapolern's France or her allies. Napoleon retaliated by 
"Decrees." issuing his " Dccrces," which placed a prohi- 

bition upon all neutral trade with England. As nearly all 
American commerce was with England, France, and their 
respective allies, these restrictions threatened it with ruin. 
If an American vessel was bound for an English port she 
was liable to be seized by the French. If she risked 
a voyage to a French or other Continental port she was 
liable to be seized by an English man-of-war. 7'hus our 

' "Orders in Council," issued in England in 1806, declared that all the ports 
between Brest and the Elbe were in a state of blockade. In 1807 a similar order 
declared all ports blockaded from which the British flag was excluded, and forbade 
all vessels to trade with France or any of her allies. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 227 

merchantmen were between two fires. They were pretty 
certain not to escape both. 

220. Jefferson's Peace Policy and the Embargo (1807). 
— With all his greatness, Jefferson was not a model execu- 
tive in time of serious foreign difficulties demanding firm 
and vigorous measures. He abhorred war and believed 
that the same results could be accomplished by peaceful 
means. He thought that by refusing to trade with Eng- 
land and France he could force them to a reasonable and 
just treatment of the United States. As an expression of 
his peace policy, he secured the passage of the Embargo 
Act (December, 1807). This prohibited all American ves- 
sels from leaving the United States for foreign ports and 
foreign vessels from taking cargoes out pt American ports. 

Jefferson thought that France and England stood in 
such need of our trade that they would soon come to terms 
when deprived of it. But they could do with- Disastrous re- 
out our trade much better than we could do bar^o^lnd us"" 
without theirs. Our ships rotted at the repeal. 
wharves. Our commerce was destroyed. New York and 
New England especially suffered, and business distress be- 
came very severe. A few hot-headed men in the Eastern 
States suggested withdrawing from the Union.^ The farm- 
ers and planters also suffered greatly because they could 
not export their produce. Many of the Virginia planters, 
whose principal source of wealth was tobacco, were nearly 
ruined. 

Dissatisfaction was so bitter that Jefferson, after con- 
siderable urging, consented to the repeal of the Embargo 
after a trial of fourteen months. The Non- Bitter dissatisfac- 
intercourse Act, allowing American vessels rlpeJfof the **** 
to open trade with all the world except Embargo. 
France and England, took the place of the Embargo 
(i8o9).2 

^ When New England commerce was ruined, the merchants of that part of the 
country invested their money in manufacturing. 

' By act of Congress the Embargo was removed on March 4, the day when Jef- 
ferson's term of office expired and Madison succeeded him as President. Jamef 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



221. Tecumseh's Conspiracy (1811). — From these com- 
mercial ditliculties we may now turn our attention to In- 
dian troubles, supposed to be incited by England. The rapid 
settlement north of the Ohio in the early part of the century 
made the Indians of that region restless and dissatisfied. 
General Harrison, who had been appointed Governor of 
Indiana Territory, bought from some of the tribes a tract 
of land on the Wabash River. Tecumseh, an able Indian 

chief, objected to the sale. A few 
tribes, he said, had no right to sell 




Tecumseh and 
his plans. 



land belonging to the 



JAMES MADISON. 



whole Indian race. It 
is quite likely that he was encour- 
aged by the English in his unfriendly 
feelings against the Americans, for 
it is thought that the English sup- 
plied the Indians of the Northwest 
with arms and ammunition. Te- 
cumseh's plan was similar to that of 
Pontiac. It was to unite the South, 
ern and Northwestern Indians in 
one great conspiracy, in order to 
drive the whites back from the 
frontiers and make the Ohio River 
a permanent boundary between the 
red race and the whites. 

When General Harrison became aware of Tecumseh's 
purpose, he marched with a body of troops against the Ind- 
ian town on the Tippecanoe River, in Indiana. A battle 

Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-1817), was born in King 
George County, Virginia, in 1 75 1, and died in 1836. After he was graduated 
from Princeton, at twenty-one years of age, he studied law. Few men of his time 
did so much to bring about the Federal convention of 1787. He was one of the 
ablest advocates of the Constitution, and was the author of many of its fundamen- 
tal features. He was associated with Hamilton and Jay in writing the very able 
papers that appeared in the Federalist. After being Jefferson's Secretary of State, 
he was elected President. Like Jefferson, Madison was a man of scholarly attain- 
ments and constructive statesmanship, but was not adapted to the pressing emer- 
gencies that must be met by the President of the United States in time of war. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 229 

was fought in which the Indians were defeated. Their 
power between the Ohio and Mississippi was broken for. 
ever. It was at last decided that the North- Battle of xippe- 
west Territory, so long" in dispute between canoe and its re.^ 
the English and the Indians on one side and *"'**" 
the Americans on the other, was to remain in possession oi 
the United States, Thus did a single battle dispose of 
Tecumseh's conspiracy. The troubles with England about 
commerce and the impressment of American seamen were 
much more serious. 

222. Causes of the War of 1812 ; Political Parties. — 
Congress expressed a willingness to repeal the Non-inter- 
course Acts (May, 1810), provided France and England 
would revoke their decrees against American commerce. 
Napoleon, who had little regard for truth when it stood in 
the way of his ambition, then played a trick 
upon our government in the hope of bringing 
on war between the United States and England. He in- 
formed us that he would revoke his decrees, but at the 
same time he sent secret orders to the French Admira.'ty to 
continue seizing our vessels. When the French emperor 
made this promise, England was requested to do likewise. 
She, however, would not consent, because she knew that 
Napoleon was not acting in good faith. For a time Ameri- 
can vessels were allowed to enter French ports without be- 
ing seized. But when a goodly number were within reach, 
the French swooped down upon them and confiscated them 
and their cargoes. 

England believed that Americans were favoring France, 
and therefore vexed and irritated them more than ever be- 
fore. Her war-ships lay in wait along the en- increasing trouble 
tire eastern coast of the United States and ^'*'' England. 
captured many of our merchantmen. Bitterness toward 
England increased. It seems pretty clear that the United 
States had as much ground for goins" to war with the one 
country as with the other. But we were too weak: to 
go to war with both of them, and the stronger of the two 
political parties, which had always sympathized with 



230 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

France, wished for war with England rather than with 
France. 

The Federab'st party included most of the commer- 
cial classes and the wealthy business men of the country. 
They were strong in New England and were closely 
Attitude of the allied in trade wath England. They believed 
li^t^oward waV" ^hat the war was needless and wicked. They 
with England. asscrtcd that in making it the United States 
was really strengthening Napoleon in his ambitious 
schemes in Europe. This was true. On the other hand, 
the Democratic-Republicans were largely made up of the 
agricultural classes in the South and West. The Western- 
ers in particular cherished bitter memories of England's 
Indian policy during the Revolution, and were eager for a 
war wnth that country. The young leaders, Henry Clay, 
of Kentucky, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, 
thought that such a war would result in the speedy con- 
quering of Canada. Later on, as we shall see, the attempt 
to conquer Canada became a leading feature of the war. 

Finally, on June 18, 1812, war was declared, although 

New England hotly opposed it. This opposition led to 

great difficulty in securing the necessary loans for carrying 

on the war, because a large part of the money 

War declared. . 

in the country was in the hands of New Eng- 
land business men, who refused to loan it to the govern- 
ment. 

223. The British and the American Navies. — When the 
war began the United States was not prepared for it. The 
Democratic-Republicans had never favored a navy. More- 
over, Jefferson had been so bent on paying off the national 
debt that he had used all his influence against building a 
strong navy. The land forces were without proper equip- 
ment, good discipline, or competent officers. England's 
navy contained about 1,000 vessels, many of them belonging 
to the largest and most powerful class. It was greater than 
the combined navies of the rest of the world. To match 
this, the United States navy contained only twelve war-ves- 
sels, none of them large, but all well built and the best of 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 231 

their class. There was small hope that this little navy could 
do much when fighting against the " Mistress of the Seas." 
But as soon as war was declared, the American vessels gal- 
lantly started out in search of the enemy. 

224. Fight Between the Constitution and the Guer- 
riere (1812). — The first sea fight of importance was between 
the Coyistitution, commanded by Captain Isaac Hull, and the 
English man-of-war Guerriere, which were thought to be 
about equal in fighting strength. Within a half-hour the 
Americans won a splendid victory. They thoroughly dis- 
abled the English vessel, so that she had to be destroyed 
where she lay at the end of the fight. The Constitution was 
practically unharmed, and lost in killed and wounded only 
fourteen men. The Guerriere lost one hundred. This naval 
duel took place (August 19, 1812) in less than three months 
after war was declared. By reason of this and later vic- 
tories, the people afterward proudly named the Constitution 
** Old Ironsides." 

225. Superiority of Americans in Naval Battles. — In 
twenty years of fighting with France, England had lost 
only five vessels. In about six months of fighting in the 
War of 1812 she lost every one of the six vessels that fought 
with the Americans. Europe was amazed. England was, of 
course, chagrined ; but Americans were carried away with 
enthusiasm. Their gallantry on the sea showed that they 
had lost none of the national spirit shown by them in the 
days of the Revolution. The British officers and seamen 
were so accustomed to winning victories that they had be- 
come careless in their training and discipline. The marvel- 
lous success of the Americans was due to better seaman- 
ship, more accurate gunnery, and the superior construction 
of their vessels. 

But our victories did not prevent the immense English 
navy from blockading our coast. Smarting under repeated 
defeats when she had counted on certain vie- „ ,, . 

English war«ve8> 

tory, England transferred a good part of her seu blockade our 

navy to American waters. Whenever one of '^'*"*' 

our war-vessels entered a harbor, several British vessels 



232 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

hovered near to prevent her escaping to sea again. As a 

consequence, during the last half of the war the larger 

American vessels, shut in by this blockade, could not engage 

in figfhtino^. But American privateers inflicted 

Privateers. 00 r 

great loss on English commerce. During the 
war about 2,500 British merchant vessels were captured by 
American privateers. These privateers were New Eng- 
land vessels that were prevented by war from engaging in 
commerce. But while we were successful on the sea, we 
were not so successful on land. 

226. War in the Northwest (1812-1813). — It will be 
remembered that one of the leading purposes of the war 
(see par. 222) was to invade and conquer Canada. With 
this aim in view General William Hull started from De- 
troit into Canada. He was soon driven back and forced to 
surrender at Detroit with his entire force (August 16, 
1812).^ A little later the English captured Fort Dearborn, 
now Chicago. Instead of our securing Canada it looked 
very much as if the British would get control of all the ter- 
ritory north of the Ohio. To prevent this, General Har- 
rison was sent, early in the winter of 1813, to drive the 
British troops out of Detroit, but his advance force was 
obliged to surrender at the River Raisin, where the Indians 
cruelly massacred the wounded prisoners. 

227. Perry Wins a Brilliant Victory on Lake Erie 
(September 10, 1813). — Before the English could come into 
effective control of the Northwest, it was necessary for 
them to command Lake Erie. To prevent this, Captain 
Oliver H. Perry, a naval officer twenty-eight years old, was 
sent there to build and man a fleet. With remarkable en- 
Perry'8 remark- ^rgy and pcrseverancc he cut down trees, 
able energy, constructed vcsscls of grccu timber, and got 
together men whom he trained for the severe struggle they 
were to engage in. Some of his best men were Rhode 
Island seamen and Kentucky riflemen. 

* People were indignant at Hull for his surrender and accused him of cowardice. 
Although he was tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot, the sentence was 
never executed. It now seems clear that General Hull was an innocent man. 




AMERICAN SEAMEN BOARDING THE FROLIC. 
The eiinagcinrnt befneen the IVasp and th-e Frolic— H'ar 0/1812. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 233 

On September 10, 181 3, the British fleet, commanded by 
Captain Barclay, a veteran officer, hove in sight. There 
was Httle difference in the strength of the two fleets. The 
British had six vessels with sixty-three guns, and the Amer. 
icans had nine vessels with fifty-four guns; but while the 
enemy's vessels were larger, their guns were smaller. By 
concentrating their fire upon Perry's flagship, Lawrence, 
the British completely disabled her. Only Perry and eight 
of his men were left unharmed. It was a su- 

•» T 1 •. 1 His bravery^ 

preme moment. Most men woula have sur- 
rendered. He boldly entered a rowboat and, standing up, 
flag in hand, rowed straight for \\\& Niagara, another vessel 
of his fleet. Although the British directed their fire upon 
the little boat. Perry reached the Niagara without injury. 
He then renewed the battle with great vigor, and in fifteen 
minutes compelled the English captain to strike his colors. 

This was the first time in history that an entire English 
fleet was captured. It was a brilliant victory. Taking out 
of his pocket an old letter, Perry wrote on the back of it 
his celebrated dispatch to General Harrison : " We have 
met the enemy and they are ours." General Harrison at 
once attacked and defeated the land forces at the Thames 
River (October 5, 1813). These two victories put the 
Americans in entire control of Lake Erie and saved the 
Northwest. 

228. Threefold Attack of the British in 1814.— In the 
Northwest neither side had made any decided gain when 
invading the other's territor}'. This was equally true of 
the fighting farther east, where the Americans failed at Ni- 
agara River,! and the English at Fort Erie. Having de- 
feated Napoleon in Europe, England now had more soldiers 
and seamen for the war in the United States. Accordingly, 
she decided to invade American territory from the north, 
on the old Burgoyne route, and to enter the Mississippi 

' Under the lead of General Scott and General Brown, the bloody battles of 
Chippavva and Lundy's Lane were fought and won just west of Niagara River, 
on Canadian soil. As the United States troops had to retreat across the Niagara 
River, these victories were of no immediate advantage. 



234 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

on the south and capture New Orleans. At the same time 
attacks were to be made at various points along the eastern 
coast, so as to keep the inhabitants in that quarter in a state 
of fear and doubt. By making this threefold attack, the 
English expected to prevent the Americans from concen- 
trating at any point. 

229. McDonough's Victory on Lake Champlain. — To 
ward off the attack from the north, the Americans had a 
squadron under Commodore McDonough on Lake Cham- 
plain, and a land force of 1,500 at Plattsburg on the lake 
shore. The English also had a fleet on the lake and an 
army of 14,000 on land. Although the English fleet was 
stronger in men and guns, McDonough, in about two hours, 
gained a decided victory, and captured all the larger ves- 
sels belonging to the Enghsh fleet. As soon as the news of 
the battle reached land, the English army beat a hasty re- 
treat (September 11, 1814). This invasion, in its purpose 
and failure, recalls that of Burgoyne in 1777. 

230. The British Capture Washington and Attack 
Baltimore (1814). — In August (1814) a British fleet sailed 
into Chesapeake Bay and landed an army which marched 
against Washington. They reached Bladensburg, six or 
seven miles from Washington, before they met with any 
opposition. Here General Winder, an incompetent com- 
mander, with a bod}^ of Americans composed largely of 
untrained and ill-supplied militia, made a short, feeble re- 
sistance and fled in confusion. The British then marched 
into Washington, almost capturing President Madison him- 
self. Here they disgraced their victory by destroying the 
Capitol and other government buildings. After a few days 
they sailed for Baltimore, where they were bravely re- 
pulsed, with the loss of General Ross, their commander.' 

^When the British were inarching against Washington, they seized and carried 
off a friend of Francis S. Key. As soon as Key heard of the capture he tooli steps 
to secure the release of the prisoner. President Madison gave assistance by order- 
ing that a vessel be placed at the disposal of Key. General Ross consented to the 
release of Key's friend, but insisted that Key should be detained until after the at- 
tack upon Baltimore. During the night of attack Key could see, by the glare of 
the firing guns, the " Star-Spangled banner " waving over Fort McHenry. But 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 235 

The British fleet visited many points of the Virginia 
and Carolina coast, burning bridges, farm-houses and vil- 
lages, and carrying off crops, stocks, and slaves belonging to 
the inhabitants. They also maintained a strict blockade all 
along the coast from Maine to Georgia. 

231. War with the Creek Indians (1814). — Tecumseh, 
when planning his conspiracy in the Northwest, had 
aroused against the Americans the powerful Creek Indians, 
occupying territory now included in Georgia and Alabama. 
Like the Indians north of the Ohio, they saw the whites 
getting control of their hunting-grounds and killing their 
game. Believing this time of war to be a favorable oppor- 
tunity for getting back their lands, the Creeks planned an 
attack. They captured Fort Minims, near Mobile, and 
cruelly slaughtered some 400 men, women, and children in 
the garrison (summer of 181 3). Andrew Jackson, with men 
from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi, marched against 
the Creeks, and, after defeating them several times, won a 
decisive victory over them at Horseshoe Bend, on the Tal- 
lapoosa River, in eastern Alabama (March, 18 14). This 
battle so broke the power of the Creeks that they were 
obliged to abandon much of their territory and go farther 
west. 

232, Battle of New Orleans (1815). — The British wished 
to get possession of New Orleans, in order to control the 
trade of tne Mississippi and the territory of Louisiana after 
the close of the war. As tneir success here would give 
them a great advantage over the Americans, they sent 
against New Orleans 12,000 veterans who had fought in 
Wellington's army. 

The success of the expedition, which was in command 
of skilful generals, seemed well-nigh certain. Andrew jackson'a 
But Andrew Jackson, who was put in com- preparations, 
mand of the Americans at New Orleans, proved himself 

toward morning, when the firing ceased, he was in an agony of suspense to learn 
whether or not our flag yet floated in triumph over the fort. After finding that the 
'• flag was still there," he gave expression to his deep feeling in "The Star-Spangled 
Banner," a part of which he hastily penned on the back of a letter. 



230 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

equal to the emergency. When he found that the enemy 
were close at hand, he began with unbounded energy to 
prepare for the defence of the city. After arming even free 
colored men and convicts, he could number only half as 
many men as the English. 

But with his army strongly posted behind fortifications, 
he awaited the final assault, which was made January 8, 
1815. The British gallantly advanced, but they were 
mowed down in hundreds by the terrible cannonade oppos- 
ing them. It was chiefly an artillery battle, the main Brit- 
ish column not arriving within fair musket range. The 
British lines could not advance in the face of such fearful 
slaughter. In twenty-five minutes they had lost their com- 
mander. General Pakenham, and 2,600 men killed and 
wounded, or more than one-fifth of their army. The Amer- 
icans lost only twenty-one. Here, as in all the fighting on 
Bloody repulse of l^^d and sca, the superiority of the American 
the British. gunnery was noteworth}^ In fact, through- 

out the war the Americans were unmistakably ahead of 
the English in intelligence and quickness of movement. 

We more fully appreciate the telegraph and subma- 
rine cable when we learn that this battle, so terrible in loss 
of life, was fought two weeks after the treaty of peace had 
been agreed upon. Communication in those days was so 
slow that the news of Jackson's victory (January 8, 1815) 
did not reach Washington until Februar}^ 4, News of the 
treaty of peace reached New York a week later. The 
Result of the battle, therefore, did not in any way affect this 

battle. treaty. But it did revive the confidence of 

the American people in the militar}^ ability of their soldiery 
when under competent leadership. 

233. The Hartford Convention (December, 1814-Janu- 
ary, 1815). — From the outset New England Federalists had 
New England's bccu much opposcd to the war. As it pro- 
dissatisf action. gresscd, their opposition became bitter. At 
first the government had not only appointed weak command- 
ers, but all along it had poorly managed the finances. It had 
not protected the New England coasts from British attack, 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 237 

and to New England merchants it had seemed indifferent 
about furnishing such protection. Commerce was practi- 
cally ruined, and there was much business distress. 

New England had bravely done its part in carrying on 
the war, Massachusetts having furnished much more than 
its share of men and money, but the Federali&:ts in New 
England had no confidence in President Madison and his 




OLD STATE HOUSE, Vv'^HERE THE HARTFORD CONVENTION MET. 



government. At length they called together the Hartford 
Convention, which met at Hartford, in December, 1814. 
All the meetings were secret, and the peo- The people greatly 
pie throughout the country were greatly ex- excited, 
cited about the possible outcome. Democratic-Republi- 
cans openly charged the members with plotting to break up 
the Union and to form a separate government. 

As the proceedings were not published, nobody knows 
all that the Convention did. It did, however, take a bold 
and dangerous step toward the dissolution of what the Hartford 
the Union, by recommendiag that the pro- ^»"^«"*'*»" •"<>• 
ceeds of the national taxes, collected in each New England 
State, should be reserved by it to pay troops for its own 
defence. This recommendation was extremelv unwise. It 



238 HISTORY OF THE CXITED STATES 

sounded much like the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 
of 1798 and 1799. The Hartford Convention was a great 
political blunder. It killed the Federalist party. 

234. Treaty of Peace and Results of the War (Decem- 
ber 24, 1814). — The treaty of peace was agreed upon De- 
cember 24, 1814. No mention was made of impressment oi 
seamen and the unjust interference with our commerce by 
the English navy. But the war put a stop to both evils, 
and had, in addition, three results: (i) It showed the supe- 
riority of American seamanship ; (2) it gave the United 
States a position of respect and honor among the nations of 
the world; (3) it led the Americans, who had been for so 
many years cut off from the manufactured goods of Europe, 
to build mills and factories for themselves and thus become 
more independent of European manufactures than ever be- 
fore. Well may this war be called the Second War of Inde 
pendence. In the Revolution Americans fought for inde 
pendence of England; in the War of 1812 they fought for 
independence of Europe. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. What complaints did we make against England about searching 

American vessels and impressing American seamen ? What com- 
plaints did England enter against us ? 

2. How did England and France injure American commerce ? What was 

Jefferson's purpose in securing the passage of the Embargo Act ? 
What was the Embargo ? How did it affect American commerce ? 

3. Why was there more commerce carried on in New England than in 

the South ? Why was the Embargo Act repealed ? 

4. James Madison, our fourth President, was inaugurated March 4, 1809, 

and served two termu, 1809-1817. Name in order the three Presi- 
dents who preceded h>'.:, 

5. What led to Tecumseh's consoiracy ? What were the results of the 

battle of Tippecanoe ? What had Tecumseh's conspiracy to do 
with our trouble vvith EntcJand ? 

6. What was Napoleon's trick, and how did its success lead to increasing 

trouble with England ? Why did the Federalists oppose a war with 
England ? Why did the Democratic-Republicans favor such a war ? 

7. Subject for aebate : Resolved that in i8i2we should have g-one to war 

vrith France rather than with Eng^laD^i, 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 239 

8. Why had we so small a navy in 1812 ? Compare it with the English 

navy at that time. 

9. Give an account of the fight between the " Constitution " and the 

"Guerriere." How great was the success of the American navy in the 
first six months of the war ? How do you account for this success ? 

10. What disasters fell upon our armies in the Northwest in 1812-13 ? 
What led to the battle of Lake Erie ? Imagine yourself with Perry 
during the battle, and write to a friend, giving an account of your 
experiences. What were the results of Perry's victory ? 

I What was the threefold plan of attack made by the British in 1814 ? 
Give the results of McDonough's victory on Lake Champlain. 

12. What was the object of the British in trying to capture New Orleans ? 

Give the results of the battle. In what ways w^ere the Americans 
superior to the English in this and in other battles of the war ? 

13. Why were New England Federalists bitterly opposed to the Em- 

bargo ? How was their dissatisfaction increased during the war? 
What recommendation did the Hartford Convention make ? Com- 
pare this recommendation with the Kentucky and Virginia resolu- 
tions of 1798 and 1799. You observe that even in 1814 true national 
feeling was not strong and deep in the United States. Name three 
results of the war. 

14. Learn well the story of The Star-Spangled Banner's origin and then 

memorize the poem. Read again and again Drake's American Flag 
and Holmes's Old Ironsides. 



DEVELOPMENT WEST OF THE ALLEGHANIES 

235. Purchase of Florida. — At the close of the Revolu- 
tion Florida had passed into the hands of Spain. During 
the War of 181 2 the Spaniards were in sympathy with the 
Engflish, and allowed them to build forts in Florida and to 
arm the Seminole Indians living there. This xheseminoie 
unfriendly attitude of the Spaniards embit- Indians protect 
tered the Southern States. Moreover, many "-""a^^y «'«ves. 
slaves, escaping from Georgia and Alabama, fled into the 
swamps and morasses of Florida, and there found protec- 
tion among the Seminole Indians, with whom the}^ married 
and lived. 

The slave-owners often followed in search of their slaves, 
and for years carried on a kind of border warfare. As Spain 
did not set matters right, General Andrew Jackson was 

19 



240 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

sent down (1817) with a body of troops. Jackson acted 
with his usual decision and energy. He hanged two Ind- 
ian chiefs, and two Englishmen whom he ac- 

Jackson in Florida. ^ r • ■.■ .1 <:> 1 tt ^ j 

cused of incitmg the beminoles. He captured 
Pensacola and established a garrison there. These acts 
were open war against Spain, but trouble was avoided by 
our buying Florida. The purchase was made in 1819, for 
$5,000,000. The territory was more than twelve times the 
size of Connecticut.^ 

236. The Monroe- Doctrine (1823).. — Having watch d 
the United States win independence from England and 
then become strong and prosperous, Mexico and the other 
Spanish colonies in America rose in revolt against Spain. 
One after another they declared their independence and 
set up republics of their own. Spain was unable of herself 
Spain and the to cuforcc authority, and looked for aid to the 
••Holy Alliance," " Holy Alliance." This alliance had been 
formed in 181 5, after the downfall of Napoleon, by Russia, 
Austria, and Prussia. Its purpose was to prevent the peo- 
ple of any European monarchy from overthrowing the gov- 
ernment, as the French people had done during the French 
Revolution. From the American standpoint, if the great 
European powers should begin to interfere with the coun- 
tries of America, they might, by obtaining a foothold here, 
endanger the welfare of the United States. 

The experiment of twenty-five years of struggle between 
the United States on the one hand and England and France 

'The area of Connecticut, being 4,990 or approximately 5,000 square miles, 
makes a very convenient unit of measurement. It will hereafter be so used in 
many cases. 

'James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), was born 
in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1758, and died in 183 1. Soon after his 
student life began at the College of William and Mary, he was called away to 
active service in the Revolution. He fought bravely at Trenton, Brandywine, 
Germantown, and Monmouth. He filled mahy high stations in his country's ser- 
vice, not only at home, where he was a member of the Continental Congress, and 
later of the Senate under the Constitution, but abroad, where he was minister to 
France, England, and Spain. After being Secretary of State under Madison, he 
was elected President. In all his public service he proved himself a patriotic and 
upright citizen. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 241 



on the other had cuhinnated in the War of 1812. We 
had thus learned the wisdom of keeping out of European 
entanglements. We had learned, also, the wisdom of man- 
aging our own affairs without the intervention ot England, 
France, or any other European countrj". President Mon- 
roe, therefore, in a message to Congress at The "Monroe 
this time, declared (i) that we would take no Doctrine." 
part in European wars; (2) that we would not interfere 
with any European colonies already established in America; 
(3) but that any attempt on the part 
of a European nation to interfere 
with the independence of an Ameri- 
can state would be regarded as an 
unfriendly act.^ This statement of 
our position gave expression to the 
general American sentiment which 
has since become known as the 
** Monroe Doctrine." 

It was a strong position to take, 
but the valor of Perry on Lake Erie, 
of McDonough on Lake ^^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ 
Champlain, of Jackson "Monroe 
at New Orleans, and of Doctrine.- 
the American sailors on the sea, had 
won the respect and admiration of 
Europe. The Holy Alliance wisely refrained from med- 
dling with American affairs: a precedent was established; 
and the Monroe Doctrine has ever since been the settled 
policy of the United States. 

237. The National Road.— The Monroe Doctrine prac- 
tically settled the foreign policy of the United States ; but 
there remained a question at home which appeared almost 
to defy solution. From early colonial times two obstacles 




JAMES MONROE. 



* We find a similar sentiment expressed in Washington's Farewell Address, 
from which the following is quoted : " The great rule ot conduct for us in regard 
to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as 
little political connection as possible. ... It is our true policy to steer clear 
of permanent alliances with any portion ot the foreign world." 



242 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

had stood in the way of westward migration. These were 

the Indians and the natural barriers to travel and transporta- 

..... tion. By the overthrow of Tecumseh's con- 

Two obstacles to J r i /~« i ■ 

westward migra- spiracy in the Northwest and of the Creeks in 
**°"- the Southwest, the power of the Indians 

east of the Mississippi River had been broken. 

This vast, fertile area was now open to migration. 
People from New England and the Northern States be- 
gan to move westward in large and increasing numbers. 
The steamboat greatly aided this westward movement, but 
The steamboat ^^ steamboat was of use only on the rivers 
and the pack- and lakcs. It was necessary for men and all 
''*"'*^' kinds of movable property to pass over wide 

stretches of country through which navigable rivers did 
not flow. The pack-horse of early days needed only a path 
through the woods, but the emigrant called for a roadway 
to connect the East and the West. Hence the "National 
Road," beginning on the banks of the Potomac, at Cumber- 
land, Maryland, was undertaken at national expense. 

The first contract was let in 1811. By 1820 the road 
was extended over the mountains to Wheeling, where it 
connected with the steamboats on the Ohio. The original 
purpose was to build this road to the Mississippi. But by 
the time it reached Illinois (1838) the coming of the rail- 
road made its farther extension unnecessary. It helped 
much in furthering emigration and westward growth. For 
the construction and repair of this road Congress spent 
nearly seven million dollars. 

238. The Natural Boundary Line Between Freedom 
and Slavery.— 2\aiLire had decreed that the large plantation 
slioiild liavc no place in the North. Mason and Dixon's 
Luie and the Ohio River formed the convenient and natural 
boundary line between the free and the slave States as far 
west as the Mississippi River. 

North of that line slaves were of use mainly as house- 
bold servants. It was thought that other kinds of work 
could be done with greater profit b}' white labor. In all 
this northern area, therefore, there were comparatively few 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 243 



slaves. But south of that line the soil and climate were 
favorable to the growth of cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco. 
The successful cultivation of these great slavery in the 
staples called for an abundance of cheap North and in the 
labor always at hand when needed. Slavery **" ' 
fulfilled these conditions. Moreover, it was assumed that 
the negroes, if set free, would not work, and hence slavery 
seemed to the Southern planter necessary for his highest 
prosperity. Since the freeing of the slaves, this assumption 
has been shown to be incorrect, but it was none the less 
believed in the South before the Civil War. 

239. The Question of the Extension of Slavery into 
the Louisiana Territory. — Before the Louisiana Purchase, 
then, soil and climate seem to have largely decided what 
should be the line separating freedom from slavery. Seven 
of the thirteen original States were free and six, were slave, 
but the admission of new ones had been so planned that in 
18 19 there were eleven standing for freedom and the same 
number for slavery. In this way each section had an equal 
vote in the Senate. In the House of Repre- The south eager 
sentatives the North, having grown in popu- e"il^nt"*!ii"the 
lation much faster than the South, had by senate. 
1819 a much larger vote.^ If, however, the South could 
maintain an equality in the Senate, legislation unfriendly 





' REPRESENTATION IN 


CONGRESS IN 182O. 








No Free States. 


Ad- 
mitted. 


Sen- 
ate. 


House 
of Rep. 


No. 


Slave States. 


Ad- 
mitted. 


Sen- 1 House 
ate. of Rep. 


I 
2 

3 
4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 
II 
12 


Pennsylvania. . . 

New Jersey 

Connecticut. . . . 
Massachusetts. . 
New Hampshire 

New York 

Rhode Island.. 

Vermont 

Ohio 


1787 
1787 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1790 

1791 
1803 
1816 
1818 
1820 


2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 


23 
6 

7 

13 
6 

27 
2 
6 
6 

I 
I 
7 


1 

2 

3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 
II 
12 


Delaware 

Georgia 

Maryland 

South Carolina 

Virginia 

North Carolina 

Kentucky 

Tennessee 

Louisiana 

Mississippi . .. 

Alabama 

Missouri 


1787 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1789 
1792 
1796 
1812 
1817 
1818 
182I 


2 

2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 


2 

6 

9 

9 

23 

13 

10 

6 


Indiana 

Illinois 

Maine 


I 

I 








I?, 


Free 




24 


los 


12 


Slave 




24 


82 















244 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



South toward 
slavery in Mis- 
souri. 



to slavery could be prevented, and to this end the slave- 
holders were ready to put forth all their energy. 

240. The Missouri Compromise (1820). — In 1818 Mis- 
souri, a part of the Louisiana Purchase, aj^jplied for admission 
into the Union. The hrst State admitted from this purchase, 
Louisiana, had come in as a slave State in 1812, but it was 
far south of the line dividing freedom and slavery as al- 
ready established. Missouri, however, lay partly north of 

this dividing- line and partly south. 
The Northern people claimed that as 
Attitude of the Cougrcss had control 
North and the ^f 1\^q Territories it 

had a constitutional 
right to decide whether 
they should be free or slave. The 
Southern people, on the other hand, 
insisted tiiat each State had a consti- 
tutional right to decide this question 
for itself. 

When applying for admission the 
people of Missouri had requested 
that they might have slavery. It 
happened that about the same time 
Maine wished to be admitted as a 
free State. The slaveholders, there- 
tore, refused to allow Maine to enter the Union unless 
Missouri should be admitted as a slave State. The strug- 
gle was long and bitter. At last, largely through the in- 
fluence of Henry Clay, an act known as the " Missouri 
Compromise " was passed, which, for the time, settled the 
difficulty. 

This compromise had two provisions: (i) Missouri was 
to come into the Union as a slave State ; (2) all the remain- 
The two provis- ing territory in the Louisiana Purchase, north 
[ZVcl^'r^.Z" oi the parallel of 36° 30', or the southern 
mise. boundary of Missouri, was to be forever free. 

Maine was admitted as a free State in 1820, and Missouri as 
a slave State in 1821, making twelve free and twelve slave 







X 



HENRY CLAY, "THE GREAT 
PEACK.MAKEK." 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 245 

States. It was supposed that the slavery difficulty was for- 
ever settled. "Forever" in this case meant only about 
twenty-five years. \ 

241. The Erie Canal (1817-1825).^ — Transportation over- 
land, from east to west, by means of wagons and draught 
animals 'vas slow and expensive. Some better means of 
travel and communication between the Altantic coast and 
the Mississippi valley had therefore become a necessity. 
This necessity suggested to the thoughtful mind of DeWitt 
Clinton the building of a canal to connect the Great Lakes 
with the eastern seaboard. So in 1817, through his untir- 
ing energy, a large body of laborers began the task of dig- 
ging the Erie Canal. 

It extended from Buffalo, on Lake Eric, to Albany, on 
the Hudson, a distance of three hundred and sixty-three 
miles. As Lake Erie is nearly six hundred feet higher than 
the level of the Hudson, and as the canal had Difficulties in 
to pass through forests and over rivers, many building the canai. 
people looked upon the scheme as a foolish venture. By 
way of ridicule they called the canal " Clinton's Ditch." 
But Clinton's perseverance overcame all opposition, and 
the Erie Canal was ready for use in 1825. It was built 
at the expense of the State of New York, and v/as easily 
paid for by tolls levied on boats and goods passing 
through it. 

242. Results of the Construction of the Erie Canal.— 
The results of constructing the Erie Canal surpassed the 

* The Erie Canal was opened in the autumn of 1825, the first year of John Quincy 
Adams's administration. John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams and the sixth 
President of the United States (1825-1829), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, 
in 1767, and died in 1848. After graduating from Harvard he Degan the study of 
law. His public service was long and distinguished. He was nor only American 
minister to Holland, Portugal, England, Prussia, and Russia, but was one of the 
American peace commissioners at the close of the War of 1812. After serving with 
signal ability as Monroe's Secretary of State, he was elected to the presidency. As 
President he was unpopular and made many enemies. But the greatest part of his 
career began when he entered the national House of Representatives in 1831. Here 
he became the anti-slavery statesman of his time. His fearlessness won the admira« 
tion of friend and foe alike He remained a member of the House until 1848, 
when he fell dead in the Capitol. He was well called the " Old Man Eloquent.*' 



240 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



highest expectations, even of Clinton, (i) Cost of transpor- 
tation was reduced. Before the canal was in use $io was 
paid for carr^ang a barrel of flour from Buffalo to Albany 
by wagon. By canal-boat the expense was reduced to 
thirty cents per barrel. (2) Since the canal made travel 
easier and less expensive, it increased migration westward. 
Before the building of the New York Central Railroad it 
carried thousands of emigrants. (3) All along the canal 
towns and cities rapidly grew up, so 
that New York soon became the 
most populous State in the Union. 
(4) It greatly stimulated the devel- 
opment of New York city, which 
shortly became, as it has since re- 
mained, the chief commercial city in 
the countr}'. (5) By largely reduc- 
ing the freight charges for transpor- 
tation of goods it made the food 
produced on Western farms much 
cheaper in the East, and for the same 
reason it caused manufactured goods 
from the East and imported goods 
from Europe to sell for lower prices 
in the West. It therefore increased 
the wealth of both the East and the West. 

243. Internal Improvements. — The National Road and 
the Erie Canal were a part of an extensive system of inter- 
nal improvements which were of great service in develop- 
ing the West and connecting it with the East. This system 
included not only the building of roads and canals, but the 
improvement of rivers and harbors. Some of these roads 
and canals were built by private enterprise and some by 
-, . the separate States. The cost of building 

Two ways of i '^ 

making internal and keeping them in repair was met by toll 
Improvements. charges. Many people believed that Con- 
gress hnd a right to make internal improvements at the ex- 
pense of the whole people. Man}' others insisted that such 
improvements should be made by private companies or by 




JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, THE 
ANTI-SLAVERY STATES- 
MAN. 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 247 

the separate State governments. These last urged that the 
" general welfare " ^ of the people was not served by build- 
ing roads and canals and by improving rivers and harbors, 
which directly benefited limited areas only. They there- 
fore argued that such works should not be undertaken by 
the general government at national expense. 

This was the view of those who gave a strict construc- 
tion to all parts of the Constitution. Madison, Monroe, 
and Jackson were of this party. Those who gave a broad 
construction to the Constitution said that this power was 
implied in the following clause : ** The Congress shall have 
power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper 
for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all 
the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of 
the United States" (Article I., Section 8, Clause 18). This 
has rightly been called the " Elastic Clause." The " Elastic 
The " River and Harbor Bill," passed every clause.- 
year for the improvement of rivers and harbors in all 
parts of the country, shows that Congress to-day gives a 
liberal construction to the Constitution. 

244. New Problems and a New Political Party. — The 
best way of making internal improvements was a new 
problem for the people to solve, but there were other prob- 
lems equally difficult. The Alien and Sedition laws had 
seriously injured the Federalist party; the The era of good 
Hartford Convention had killed it, leaving feeling, 
the Democratic-Republicans as the only political party in 
the country. From 1817 to 1825, during Monroe's adminis- 
tration, this singular condition of affairs prevailed, and this 
period has ever since been known as the " Era of Good 
Feeling." 

But the new problems that soon presented themselves 
led to the rise of a new political party and involved three 
pressing and vital questions: (i) Shall inter- Three pressing 
nal improvements be made by Congress at questions, 
national expense ? (2) Is the United States Bank constitu- 
tional? (3) Is the true policy of the country a tariff for 

^ See preamble of the Constitution. 
20 



248 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

revenue only or a high tariff for the protection of home 
industries? The Democrats, as the Democratic-Repub- 
licans now began to call themselves, believed in leaving 
internal improvements to private enterprise or to State 
governments. They regarded the Bank of the United 
States as unconstitutional. They favored a low tariff. 

The new party wished internal improvements to be 
made at national expense, approved the United States 
The National Re- Bank, and urgcd that a high protective tariff 
publican party. ^yag for the bcst interests of the people. Be- 
cause this new party favored the strengthening of the na- 
tional government in these three ways it was called the 
National Republican Party. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. James Monroe was now President, serving two terms, 1817-1825. 

2. What difficulties led to the purchase of Florida? 

3. What was the Holy Alliance, and what w^as its connection with the 

Monroe Doctrine ? Name the three main provisions of this Doctrine, 
Try to understand clearly the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine. It 
will come up again later. 

4. Before the purchase of Louisiana, what was the natural boundary line 

between free and slave territory ? Explain how soil and climate 
favored slavery south of Mason and Dixon's Line and the Ohio 
River. 

5. Why was the South eager to maintain in the Senate an equality with 

the North ? What difficulty was settled by the Missouri Com- 
promise ? What was this Compromise ? 

6. Review what has been said about the pack-horse, the flat boat, the 

steamboat, and the National Road. In what way did the Erie Canal 
supplement these ? Do not be satisfied until you know well the re- 
sults of constructing this canal, especially the last one named in the 
text. 

7. John Quincy Adams, who served for one term, 1825-1829, was now 

President. 

8. What was meant by internal improvements ? Why were they greatly 

needed at this time ? What two views were held as to the best way 
of making internal improvements ? 

9. You see you are again face to face with the two opposite views of the 

true meaning of the Constitution. What were these views ? What 
is the " Elastic Clause " ? 



NEW STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 249 

10. What were the new political problems, and what the pressing queS' 
tions they involved ? What was the new political party, and how 
did it answer each of these questions ? How did the Democratic 
party answer them ? 

(I. In this connection you might well review what you have already 
studied about political parties. You will recall two great mistakes, 
made by the Federalist party. Make frequent use of the index. 

12. Read Washington's Farewell Address and the message containing 
the Monroe Doctrine. 



CHAPTER XVI 

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST (1829-1841) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, IV.; An- 
drews's United States, I.; Burgess's Middle Period; Wright's Children's 
Stories of American Projjress; Wilson's Division and Reunion; Coffin's Build- 
ing the Nation; Richardson's History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Schouler's United States, III. and IV.; Rhodes's The 
United States, I.; Wilson's A History of the American People, IV.; Sumner's 
Andrew Jackson; Lodge's Daniel Webster; Von Hoist's John C. Calhoun; 
Schurz's Henry Clay ; Morse's John Quincy Adams ; Johnston's American 
Orations (Webster and Hayne); Bolton's Famous American Statesmen; Teft's 
Webster and His Masterpieces. 

FICTION : Eggleston's Hoosier Schoolmaster ; Eggleston's Graysons. 

245. Character of Andrew Jackson.^ — The six Presi- 
dents that preceded Jackson came from Virginia or Massa- 
chusetts. They were all men of culture and stood for what 
was best in the social life of New England and the South. 
Andrew Jackson was of a different type. He represented 
the frontier life of the West. 

His education had been meagre, but he was a man of 
much ability and of strong and forceful character. He was 
a natural leader of men and had occupied many positions oi 
trust in the community in which he lived. His unbounded 

* Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), was 
born in Union County, North Carolina, in 1767, and died at his home, "The Her- 
mitage," near Nashville, in 1845. When only fourteen years old he joined the 
American force under Sumter. After the Revolution he began to study law. At 
the age of twenty-nine he removed to Nashville and soon became prominent in pub- 
lic life. He was elected to the national House of Representatives, and later to the 
Senate. In 1814 he was appointed major-general in the United States army and 
in this position won the brilliant victory at the battle of New Orleans. On account 
o( bis obstinate will his friends called him " Old Hickory." 

250 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 



2!;i 



faith in his own convictions caused him to commit some 
errors as President. But he was always sincere and in- 
tensely patriotic. He was loyal to his friends, but severe 
upon his enemies. His personal prejudices and his jealousy 
for the nation were so intense that he regarded those dis- 
agreeing with him as not only enemies to himself but to his 
country. 

His genuine interest in the welfare of the people cannot 
be questioned. During the eight years of his Presidency 
(i 829-1 837) his influence upon the ^ > 

course of events was a a man of the 
personal one. He was people, 
in a true sense a man of the people, 
who cheerfully followed wherever 
he led. 

246. The Spoils System. — When 
Jackson became President he desired 
to reward those political friends who 
had worked faithfully for his elec- 
tion. Moreover, he believed in the 
rights of the people, and did not 
deem it democratic to allow any set 
of men to remain long in office to the 
exclusion of others just as worthy. 

He therefore decided to adopt 
the more democratic principle of 
"rotation in office." "To the victors belong the spoils," 
was his motto. He accordingly turned out of office two 
thousand postmasters^ and other officials, ^ ^. ^ ^^. 

^ . Rotation In office. 

although their work was in no way con- 
nected with politics. Jackson appointed his own follow- 
ers to positions which he had made vacant by removal. 
He appointed them because they were his followers and 
not because they had a special fitness for the official work 
they were to do. This was the introduction into national 

' During the forty years from 1789 to 1829, there had been only 74 removals, 
or, on an average, less than two a year. Of these, Washington had made 9 ; John 
Adams, 10; Jefferson, 39; Madison. 5; Monroe, 9; John Quincy Adams, 2. 




ANDREW JACKSON. 

T/ie Union/ It must and 
shall be preserved !" 



252 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

politics of the " Spoils System." The system, until 1883, 
had full sway in the country, and has had a most demoral- 
izing influence on the political life of the nation. 

247. " A Tariff for Revenue with Incidental Protec- 
tion." — It will be remembered that during the time of the 
Embargo and the War of 181 2 the country, being cut ofl 
from foreign trade, was obliged to build its own mills and 
factories to produce whatever manufactured goods were 
needed for home use. As the streams flowing down New 
England hillsides furnished excellent water-power, the busi- 
ness men of that region gradually invested their capital 
in manufacturing instead of commerce. Until 18 16 duties 
had been levied on goods from foreign countries mainly foi 
revenue to pay the expenses of the nationa: government. 
These duties furnished only incidental protection to Ameri- 

• can manufacturers. Such a system of duties is called "a 
tariff for revenue with incidental protection." 

248. A Protective Tariff — After the war closed, how- 
ever, and trade was resumed with foreign countries, oui 
„ ,. . _, . markets became flooded with foreign goods, 

English goods in & & » 

American mar- especially from England. Labor was so much 
*****' cheaper in England than in this country that 

her merchants could sell goods to the United States at a 
lower price than American manufacturers could afford to 
sell them. 

Our manuiacturers naturally called for a higher tariff on 
the goods that could be made to advantage in American 
mills and factoiies. These imported goods would then 
cost so much m the United States that the American manu- 
facturer could afford to undersell the foreigner and stili 
make a profit. Such a tariff is said to encourage home in- 
dustries, or to protect American manufacturers from for- 
eign competition. It is therefore called a protective tariff. 

249. South Carolina Objects to a High Protective 
Tariff. — The first protective tariff was laid in 18 16. It was 
too moderate. The duties were so low that foreign mer- 
chants could pa}' them and still fill our markets with their 
goods. The New England manufacturers could not thrive 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 



253 



under such conditions and urged Congress to raise the 
duties. These were therefore gradually in- The high tariff o« 
creased until the high tariff of 1828 was passed, '^^s. 

The industrial conditions of the South were so different 
from those of the North that manufacturing had no place 
there. The people of the South were almost _, 

, . 1 . . Slavery and the 

exclusively employed in raising on their plan- four great staples 
tations the four great staples: rice, sugar, cot- «'**''« south, 
ton, and tobacco. The slaves were not intelligent enough 
to be employed in manufacturing. They were adapted 
only to agricultural labor. Such a 
difference in industrial conditions 
between the North and the South 
was decidedly unfortunate. The 
conflicting business interests of the 
two sections brought about a seri- 
ous disagreement in regard to the 
tariff system. 

The Southern people had to buy 
all the manufactured goods they 
used, and naturally wished to buy 
them at as low prices as possible. 
They claimed the right The South desires 

to import foreign *«-ee trade. 

goods free from duty. In other 
words, they wished free trade, or 
freedom to seek, without govern- 
ment restrictions, any foreign market. The people ot 
South Carolina claimed that a protective tariff made them 
poorer and the New England manufacturers richer, and 
that it was therefore sectional and unfair. 

250. Calhoun and Nullification (1831-1832).— John C. 
Calhoun, of South Carolina, Vice-President during most of 
Jackson's first term, and an able statesman, was the leader 
of his State in this memorable struggle over the tariff. He 
declared that inasmuch as the tariff enriched the Northern 
manufacturers at the expense of the South, it was sectional 
and, therefore, unconstitutional. 




JOHN' C. CALHOUN, THE DE- 
FENDKR OF SLAVERY AND 
STATE RIGHTS. 



254 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

His theory was that of the Kentucky and Virginia Reso- 
lutions. It dechired that the States were superior to the 
Calhoun believes Uuiou and that each was its own master, or 
in state Rights practically a sovereign nation. According to 
.nd Numncation. j^j^ -^j^,^^ ^^^ jjnion was only a loose-jointed 

confederacy, and South Carolina had a right to decide for 
itself whether or not laws passed by Congress were con- 
stitutional. This was the doctrine of State Rights. He 
believed, also, that the State could nullify, or declare not 
binding in its own territor}'', any law which it decided to^ 
be unconstitutional. This was the doctrine of Nullification. 

251. New England Manufacturers and the Protective 
Tariff. — On the other hand, the manufacturers of New Eng- 
land and of other Northern States vigorously maintained 
that a protective tariff would benefit the whole country in 
the following ways: (i) It would provide a revenue to 
defray the expenses of the Government; (2) it would, by 
making wages higher, better the condition of workingmen. 
(3) it would furnish a home market for the products of the 
farm ; (4) it would cause a greater diversity of interests in 
the United States and would thus make the country more 
independent of foreign nations, especially in time of war. 

252. Webster and the Union. — About the same time 
there was in the United States Senate a great debate 
between Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, and Robert Y. 
Hayne, of South Carolina, over the public lands. This de« 
bate was a part of the controversy between the North and 
the South about the true meaning of the Constitution. Web* 
ster, like Hamilton, believed in a strong Federal Union, 
supreme in matters concerning the interests common to 
all the people. He saw clearly that a Union composed of 
States with the right to nullify at pleasure any laws passed 
by Congress must in time break down, just as the Confed. 
Webster believes eration had after the close of the Revolution, 
the Union to be |j^ therefore insisted that, under the Consti- 

supreme over the ' 

States. tution, the State governments were inferior 

to the Federal government. According to his idea, the 
United States was a nation with supreme authority over 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 



255 



Jackson'5 toast. 



the States, and lie summed up his views in those glowing 
words that to-day should inspire us with lofty patriotism • 
" Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insepa- 
rable." 

253. Jackson's Feeling Toward Nullification.— In the 
meantime there was much excitement over the tarifl 
agitation. The South Carolina people, knowing Jackson's 
opposition to a high protective tariff, were eager to find 
out the President's feeling about 

the position their State was taking. 

They invited him to a dinner in 

Washington, and called upon him 

for a speech on a toast 

of his own selection. 

He startled them by proposing this 

toast : " Our Federal Union : it must 

be preserved." Although he did 

not like the tariff, yet as the head 

of the Federal Union he meant to 

enforce its laws. At another time, 

when asked by a member of Con« 

gress from South Carolina whether 

he had any message for his friends 

in that State, he said : " Please give 

my compliments to my friends in 

your State, and say to them that if a single drop of blood 

shall be shed in opposition to the laws of the United 

States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hands on 

engaged in such treasonable conduct." In this struggle for 

the Union, Jackson was nobly supported by Thomas H. 

Benton, a prominent Senator from Missouri. 

254. South Carolina and State Rights. — In 1832 an at- 
tempt was made to pour oil upon the troubled waters by 
adopting a new protective tariff, lower and therefore less 
objectionable to the South than the tariff of 1828. But 
South Carolina, being opposed to the principle of protec- 
tion, was still dissatisfied. 

Accordingly, a State convention was called (1832) which 

20 




DANIEL WEBSTER. 

^'^ Liberty and Union, notu and Jon 
ever, one and inseparabU." 



256 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



declared that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 were null and 
void, and prohibited the collection, after a certain date 
(February 1, 1833), of duties under these laws in the ports 
South Carolina ^^ South CaroHua. It threatened that, in case 
declares the tariff the United Statcs should try to enforce the 
acts null and void. ^^^-^^ j^^^^^ -^ g^^^j^ Carolina, she would with- 
draw from the Union and organize a separate government. 
When Jackson received the news of the action of the South 
Carolina Convention he was filled with indignation. Rais- 
ing aloft his right arm, he exclaimed : 
"The Union! It must and shall be 
preserved! Send for General Scott!" 
Troops and war- vessels were at once 
sent to Charleston with orders to 
collect duties upon all imported 
goods entering the harbor. 

Through Clay's influence, how- 
ever, Congress enacted a compro- 
mise measure, gradually lowering 

The compromise thc dutlcS. Under 

with South caro- this gradual reduc- 
''"^- tion, the tariff, at 

the end of ten years, would not be 
far removed from a tariff for reve- 
nue only. But the prompt, energetic action of the Presi- 
dent was an object-lesson to the nation. We should remem- 
ber with gratitude the unflincliing devotion of Daniel Web- 
ster and Andrew Jackson to the Union at this critical time. 
255. Jackson and the United States Bank. — The first 
United States Bank was plamicd and chartered by Alex- 
ander Hamilton' for twenty years (1791 to 181 1); and the 
second one also received a charter for the same number of 
years (18 16 to 1836). It was to receive all revenue and 
other public money and to pay this out as needed by the 
government. Its friends, the National Republicans, main- 

' This bank was an important feature in Hamilton's scheme for giving the na- 
tional government a firm financial footing. 




ROBERT Y. HAYNE 



JACKSONIAN 'democracy AND THE WEST 257 

tained that it made the paper currency safer and more 
uniform throughout the United States. Jackson declared it 
was unconstitutional: that it enriched its managers at the 
expense of the people, and was therefore not democratic: 
that its funds were used in politics to reward its friends and 
to injure its enemies. 

256. Jackson's Removal of Deposits (1833). — Although 
the charter of the second United States Bank was not to 
expire until 1S36, a bill to recharter was passed by Con- 
gress in 1832. It failed to become a law by reason of Jack- 
son's veto. The next year the President decided upon the 
removal of the deposits. He therefore ordered that after 
that time all the m.oney of the government should be 
deposited in various State banks. This was known as the 
"removal of deposits." Since in every case these banks 
were managed by Democrats, they were 

Pet Banks. 

known as "pet banks." The effect of this 
"removal of deposits" will be better understood if we ob- 
serve how money was used at that time in the development 
and expansion of the West. 

257. The Introduction of the Railroad. — ^Vast sums 
had been spent in the construction of better means of trans- 
portation. As already seen (see par. 216), the application of 
steam-power to boats made the people independent of wind 
and current. But methods of trade and travel overland 
were altogether too slow and meagre for the energetic 
American people. Roads, canals, and steam- , 

, , . -^ ^ . ' . ' . The new problem. 

boats nad promoted travel and transportation, 
but the great problem was to find some way of applying 
steam-power to travel and transportation by land. The 
railroad and the steam-driven locomotive-engine furnished 
a solution. 

The first form of the railroad was the wooden rail used 
in the coal mines of England. The next step was to cover 
the wooden rail with a thin layer of iron for protection. 
This was the form in which the first railroad appeared in 
the United States at Quincy, Massachusetts (1826). This 



i'^l 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



road was only five miles long, and its cars were drawn by 
horses. It was used to carry granite from the quarries 
^ ^ to the place of shipping. In 1828 the first 

The first passen- '^ F^ .® ^^ . . _ 

ger railroad in the passcugcr railroad in the United States was 

United states. \ • t^ i • t i i i 

begun in Baltimore. It extended westward 
about thirteen miles, and its cars were at first drawn by 

horses. This road was 
the beginning of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 
road. 

258. The Growth 
and Results of the 
Railroad. — The 
growth of the railroad 
in the United States 
has been w^onderful. 
In 1828 there were 
only 3 miles; in 1837, 
1,500 miles; and in 
1840, 2,200 miles. From that time on the growth has been 
tremendous. The United States now has over 200,000 
miles of railroad. 

The railroad brought about great changes in the life of 
the people: (i) It stimulated Western migration; (2) it 




THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, 1830-35. 




THE BOSTON & WORCESTER R.ULROAD IX I S3 5. 



made Western lands more valuable; (3) by lowering cost 
of transportation, it cheapened Western food in the East 
and Eastern manufactured goods in the West; (4) it there- 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 



259 



fore added to the wealth of both parts of the country and 
brought the people into closer sympathy and union. 

259. Rapid Growth of the West. — From 182 1 to 1837 
the country was highly prosperous. Crops were good, 
trade and manufacturing flourished, and cities grew rap- 
idly. In 182 1 the population of the whole country was ten 
millions; in 1837 it was sixteen millions. This remarkable 
growth in population was encouraged by the vast expanse 
of rich public land which the government was offering for 
very small sums, in order to increase Western migration 
and settlement.^ 

The growth was stimulated by the steamboat and the 
railroad. Before 1837 steamboats were in extensive use on 

^ An examination of the following two tables, one showing the number of foreign 
immigrants for the years 1829-1837, and the other the population of many of the 
States for 182 1 and 1S37, will give a better idea of the rapidity of this growth in 
the West: 

Immigration Taele, 1829-37. 



Year. 


Number of Immi- 
grants. 


Year. 


Number of Immi- 
grants. 


1829 


22,520 
23,322 
22,633 
60,482 
58,640 


1S34 

183s 

1836 

18^7 ; 


65,365 
45,374 
76,242 
79,340 


18^0 


1871 


18^2 


18^? 









Population im 1S21. 


Population in 

1S37. 




Round Numbers. 


Round Nurr.bers. 


New York 


1 ,400,000 

1 ,000,000 

600,000 

450,000 

1 70,000 

80,000 

70,000 

60,000 

10,000 




Pennsylvania 




Ohio 


1 ,400,000 


Tennessee 


Indiana 




Mississippi 


3 20,000 
350,000 
400,000 


Missouri 


Illinois ■ 


Michigan 







20o HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

the Great Lakes, the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the many 
smaller tributaries of those rivers. And now, with the in- 
vention of the railroad, settlement spread westward with 
ever-increasing rapidity. Towns and cities sprang into ex- 
istence as if by magic. In 1S30 Chicago consisted of a fort 
(Dearborn) and a small village. In 1833 it had 550 inhabit- 
ants; in 1837 it numbered 4,170; and at the last census the 
population was 2,185,283. 

260. Speculation in Western Lands. — Extensive areas 
of Western public lands, offered at low prices, filled men 
with the fever of speculation. Plans were laid to buy up 
large tracts and connect them with the East by roads, 
canals, and railroads. It required a great amount of money 
to establish all these great lines of communication started 
up by the railroads, but the demand was easily met after 
the "removal of deposits," for then the pubHc money was 
distributed among many State banlcs, and was more accessi- 
ble to borrowers. Loans could now be obtained, and here 
and there cities were laid out in the West. Then by the sale 
of these lands, at an enormous advance in price, the specu- 
lators became suddenly wealthy. Fortune-making seemed 
so easy that men took great risks with borrowed money. 

261. Wild-cat Banking. — The increasing demand for 
money led to "wild-cat" banking. A few men with little 
or no capital to make good the notes they issued, would 
start a bank by issuing cheaply printed bills (notes) which 
they circulated under the name of money. After buying 
public lands from the government at high prices and paying 
for them with these notes, they would sell their lands for 
gold and silver. Wlien, however, their own notes returned 
to be redeemed in gold and silver, these dishonest bankers 
would fail, and, in some cases, go elsewhere and repeat 
their swindling operations. 

262. The United States Free from Debt. — Of course 
this speculation in government lands made it easy for the 
United States to pay the public debt. Wliereas, in 1830, 
the sum received for these lands was $2,300,000, six years 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 261 




A RAILWAY COACH OF 1S3O. 



later it reached nearly $25.,ooo,ooo. We need not be sur- 
prised, then, that by the end of 1835 the public debt was 
paid. The apparent prosperity made foreigners eager tc 
emigrate from Europe to this country, and they came in 
large numbers (see table, page 274). 

263. State Speculation in Internal Improvements. — 
After the public debt was paid there was a large surplus, 
$28,000,000 of which was 
distributed among the vari- 
ous States. It was now 
very easy for State govern- 
ments, especially where the 
" pet banks " were located, 
to get money for carrying 
out their extensive plans, 
and these governments in- 



vested large sums in in- 
ternal improvements. Not 
satisfied with what their 
States supplied, they began to borrow largely from foreign 
countries. By 1837 these foreign debts amounted to oearly 
two hundred million dollars. Of course the loans from 
foreign countries made money all the more plentiful, and 
the fever of speculation raged more fiercely than ever. 

264. The Specie Circular. — Such reckless speculation 
could not fail to bring disaster. The wild-cat banks had 
issued so many paper promises, based upon nothing more 
solid than the people's willingness to receive them, that, 
like the Continental currency, they became worthless. 
Jackson was alarmed at the amount of this worthless paper 
coming into the United States Treasury. 

He therefore issued the famous Specie Circular, which 
declared that in the future nothing but specie, or gold and 
silver, should be received in payment for these lands. 
Wild-cat bank-notes were no longer of any use in buying 
and selling public lands. These notes went streaming back 
to thc^ Eastern banks that had issued them, for redemption 
m gold and silver. Since the banks were without the gold 



262 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



and silver to make good these printed promises, the prom- 
ises were worth nothing- and coukl not be redeemed. 

265. The Financial Panic of 1837.* — Of course there at 
once arose a great cry for money. Men tried to sell stocks, 
houses, lands — in fact every kind of property — to raise 
money to pay their debts. All wanted to sell. None cared 
to buy. As always happens under such conditions, prices 
went down with astonishing rapidity. There were exten- 

sive business failures, and rich 
men became poor. Mills and fac. 
tories shut down because they 
could not sell their goods. La- 
boring men were thereby thrown 
out of work, and their families 
suffered for lack of food. Soon 
there w^ere bread riots in the 
streets of New York. It was a 
terrible time and has always been 
known as the " Panic of 1837."' 

266. The Independent Treas- 
ury. — As mentioned above, many 
of the States had made extensive 
foreign loans for the purpose of 
building roads, canals, and rail- 
roads. When caught by the great 
some States refused to pay the 
interest on these loans, and some went so far as to refuse 
Repudiation of to pay either principal or interest. Such a 
state debts. rcfusal ou the part of a State to pay its debts 

is called repudiation. In the midst of this financial distress 




MARTIN VAN BUREN. 



financial panic of 1837, 



' Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States, was born at Kin- 
derhook, New York, in 1782, and died in 1862. After he had received his train- 
ing as a lawyer he began, at only eighteen years of age, his long political career. 
He represented New York in the Senate and afterward served his State as Gov- 
ernor. When Jackson was elected President he made Van Buren his Secretary of 
State. During Jackson's second term Van Buren was Vice-President. In 1837 
ihe latter became President, but owing to the unpopularity of his administration 
he failed to be re-elected. He was eminent not only as a lawyer but also, as a 
political leader. 



JACKSUNIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 263 

the "pet banks" were unable to pay the Federal Govern- 
ment the public money which it had deposited in them. 

The government being greatly embarrassed, President 
Van Buren, Jackson's successor, was obliged to call a spe- 
cial session of Congress to adopt some plan for getting 
money to pay the running expenses of the government. 
Congress authorized the Treasury Department to issue 
$10,000,000 in notes. The wisdom of having an independ- 
ent treasury instead of a number of State Banks for the 
safe-keeping of all the public money, was now evident. By 
1846 it had become the settled policy of the United States 
to have a national treasury which should take care of all 
the money paid to the government. This independent 
treasury is at Washington, while there are nine branches 
known as subtreasuries distributed in various commercial 
centres.' 

267. The Public School System and the Newspaper. — 
As life began to move at a quicker pace people began to 
think more actively, and to take a larger interest in things 
outside of their immediate surroundings. In the newer 
States there was such a democratic feeling Manhood suf- 
that every man was made a voter.' Manhood frage. 
suffrage, adopted in all the West, soon spread to the older 
communities of the East. All the people, coming into full 
control of public affairs, began to feel a deep interest in po- 
litical life. 

It thus became a necessity to educate men to an intelli- 
gent conception of their duties toward the State and so- 
ciety. This led to a great improvement in the public school 
systems, especially in the newer States. It the people 
were to be rulers they must have intelligence and virtue 
enough to rule wisely. In this period the modern news- 
paper may be said to have been born. The New York Sun 
(1833) and the New York Herald (1835) became more ener- 

^ These are located in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bos- 
ton, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Baltimore. 

'In the earlier years the suffrage was in many ways restricted in the older 
States. 
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264 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

getic than before in collecting news, were printed in a more 
convenient form, and were sold at lower prices. From that 
time the daily newspaper has had a great influence in mould- 
ing public opinion. 

268. Other Aids to Progress. — Other aids to progress 
were furnished in the establishment of transatlantic steam- 
ship lines and in the invention of the McCormick reaping- 
machine. The Savannah, sailing from Savannah, Georgia, in 
1819, was the first ocean steamship to cross the Atlantic. In 
1838 two English steamships, the Siriiis and the Great West- 
ern, sailed from England to New York. Two years later 
the first regular transatlantic steamship line, between New 
York and Liverpool, was established. This was the begin- 
nino- of the well-known Cunard Line. Ocean steamship 
traffic greatly stimulated European immigration to this 
country. 

The McCormick reaping machine, which came into use 
in 1834, was destined to have a large influence upon the 
development of the West. By making farm-work easier 
and more profitable, it stimulated emigration to the fertile 
Western lands.* 

269. The Temperance Movement. — There was so much 
pauperism and general demoralization during the years fol- 
lowing the War of 18 12 that people became alarmed and 
began to inquire the cause. Investigating committees re- 
ported that drinking was the most fruitful source of the 
evil. Everybody drank — ministers, doctors, merchants, la- 
borers, and even women and children. An occasion was 
never wanting; at funerals, weddings, dinners, and when- 
ever friends met, the social glass flowed. 

In 1824 there began in Boston a great national move- 
ment which swept through the Union. Its principle was 
abstinence from strong drink. By 1830 a thousand temper- 
ance societies had been formed and hundreds of merchants 
had given up the sale of liquor. Temperance societies in- 
creased in number and influence, saving hundreds of tliou- 

*In 1838, matches, adding much to the comfort and convenience of household 
life, came into successful use. 



JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WEST 2O5 

sands of men from the curse of the drinking habit. From 
that time the cause of temperance has steadily gained 
ground. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. You have nowr reached an important chapter in your nation's history. 

Study it carefully. Since 1829 the influence of the West has been 
very great. You will therefore add 1829 to the follov^ing land- 
marks: 1789, 1803, 1812-1814, 1820. Review the meaning of these 
dates. 

2. Are you still grouping less important events about the more impor- 

tant ? 

3. Andrew Jackson was President for two terms, 1829-1837. Name in 

order the Presidents w^ho preceded him. What w^as the secret of 
Jackson's large influence over the people ? Name his most striking 
characteristics. 

4. What was the " Spoils System " ? What did Jackson mean by saying 

that it w^as democratic ? How did he apply this system to the na- 
tional civil service ? What is the civil service ? Do you think 
Jackson was w^ise, or unwise, in introducing the "Spoils System " 
into national politics ? Give reasons for your answ^er. 

5. Revievythe tariff measure enacted w^hen Washington was President. 

What was its double purpose ? What is meant by " a tariff for 
revenue, with incidental protection"? 

6. Recall the effect which the Embargo and the War of 1812 had upon 

the growth of manufacturing in New England. Why could English 
goods be sold at a lower price than American ? What is a protective 
tariff? 

7. Why did South Carolina object to a high protective tariff? What 

difference was there in the industrial conditions of the North and 
the South ? 
8 On what ground did Calhoun declare that the protective tariff was 
unconstitutional ? What was his idea of the Union ? Define nulli- 
fication and State rights. 
9. What arguments did Northern manufacturers advance in favor of a 
protective tariff? What was Webster's idea of the Union ? Find 
out all you can about the personality of these noted statesmen. 

10. What was Jackson's feeling toward nullification ? How did he ex- 
press this feeling in a toast and in a message he sent to friends in 
South Carolina ? 

XI. What action was taken by the State Convention in South Carolina? 
What did Jackson do when he heard of South Carolina's bold step? 

12. Subject for debate : Resolved, that a protective tariff was for the best 
interests of the country as a whole. 



266 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

13. What was the purpose of the United States Bank ? What three 

charges did Jackson bring against it ? What is meant by his *' re- 
moval of deposits " and by " pet banks " ? 

14. What results followed the building of railroads ? Discuss the rapid 

growth of the West. Why was there extensive speculation in 
Western lands, and how did the "removal of .deposits " make such 
speculation easier ? 

15. What was wild-cat banking ? How did speculation affect the pay- 

ment of the public debt? What effect did the payment of the public 
debt have upon foreign immigration ? Can you new explain the re- 
lation of the railroad to Western development and to speculation in 
Western lands ? 

16. What led Jackson to issue the specie circular? How did it help to 

bring on the financial panic of 1837 ? 

17. What is the independent treasury ? 

18. Prepare yourself to write from three to five minutes on any of the fol- 

lowing topics: The public schools, the newspaper, and the temper- 
ance movement. 

19. Read Webster's famous " Reply to Hayne " and memorize some of 

the most eloquent passages. 



CHAPTER XVII 

THE SLAVERY QUESTION (184I I-1859 )' 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, IV-; An* 
drews's United States, II. ; Wright's Children's Stories of American Progress; 
Burgess's Middle Period; Wilson's Division and Reunion; Richardson'^ 
History of Our Country ; Coffin's Building the Nation. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Rhodes's United States, I. and 11.; Schouler's 
United States, IV. and V.; Wilson's A History of the American People, IV.; 
Draper's Civil War, I.; Ropes's Story of the Civil War; Hart's Romance of the 
Civil War; Brigham's Geographic Influence in American History; Qoldwin 
Smith's United States; Johnston's American Orations, II. and III.; Bolton's 
Famous American Statesmen ; Trent's William Gilmore Simms ; Grant's Personal 
Memoirs; Olmstead's Seaboard Slave States; Olmstead's Texas Journey; 
Olmstead's Journey in the Back Country; Page's Old South. 

FICTION: Stowe's Uncle Toili's Cabin; Stowe's Minister's Wooing; 
Munroe's Golden Days of '49; Harris's Uncle Remus; Brooks's Boy Settlers; 
Brooks's Boy Emigrants. 

POETRY: Whittier's Slave Ships; Whittier's Our Countrymen in 
Chains; Longfellow's Slave's Dreams. 

THE RISE OF THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT 

270. Morse and the Electric Telegraph (1844). — Be- 
fore we consider the slavery question, let us briefly refer 

' William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, was born in 
Charles City County, Virginia, in 1773, and died in Washington, District of Colum- 
bia, in 1841. After attending Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, he began to 
study medicine, but being drawn toward military life he soon entered the army at 
nineteen years of age. In the War of 1812 he served as major-general with dis- 
tinguished success. Later he represented his State in both Houses of Congress. 
He was the Whig candidate for the Presidency in 1840, and after an exciting can- 
vass in what has been called the " log-cabin and hard-cider campaij^n " was 
elected. He died just one month after his inauguration, 

' John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (1841-1845), was born in 
Charles City County, Virginia, in 1790, and died in 1862. After he was graduated 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



to a few other events. After twelve years of patient effor ,-, 
Samuel F. B. Morse succeeded in bringing the electric te?s- 
graph into practical use (1844). Being poor, he had tried 
for four years to get an appi-opriation from Congress lor 
testing his invention. At length Congress reluctantly 
voted him $30,000 for constructing a line from Baltimore to 
Washington, a distance of forty miles. 

Morse himself sent the first message from the Supreme 
Court room, in Washington, to Baltimore. " What hath 

God wrought!" was the message. 
Fitting words were these, since the 
What the tele. telegraph has brought 
graph has done great changcs into the 

for the world. ^^^^.j^^ 3^ ^^^^^^^ ^j 

it trade and commerce have been 
much increased. Business men can 
keep themselves acquainted with 
the quotations of the world's great 
markets every hour in the day. 
They can transact more business in 
five or six hours now than could 
have been transacted in as many 
months a hundred years ago. 

Another wonderful discovery of 
untold value to mankind was made in 1844 by Horace 
Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Connecticut. He tried an ex- 
Horace weiis and periment upon himself. He caused one of his 
anesthetics. tccth to be extracted after he had inhaled 

nitrous oxide, or " laughing-gas," and found that while un- 
der the influence of the "laughing-gas" he was insensible 
to pain. About two years later William T. G. Morton and 
Charles T. Jackson, both of Boston, made a similar appli- 

from the College of William and Mary he studied law and entered upon his long 
political career. He served his State as governor and represented it in both 
Houses of Congress. He was elected Vice-President by the Whigs in 3840, and 
on the death of Harrison became President. He was soon engaged in a bitter 
struggle with the Whig leaders, with whom he became extremely unpopular. As 
a warm advocate of State sovereignty, he gave his cordial support to the se. ession 
movement in 1861, when he was elected a member of the Confederate Congress. 




WILLIAM HENKi' HARRISON. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 



269 



cation of sulphuric ether to render surgical operations 
painless. When sulphuric ether and "laughing-gas" are 
thus used they are called anaesthetics. 

271. •♦Fifty-four Forty or Fight" (1844). — In the same 
year that Morse's electric telegraph came into successful 
use, there was much excitement in the United conflicting ciaima 
States over the dispute between our country to the Oregon 
and England about the Northwest Boundary. ^**"""'y- 
Our government claimed the country west of the Rockies 
from the northern boundary of Cal- 
ifornia, then a part of Mexico, to the 
southern boundary of Alaska, or the 
parallel of 54° 40'. Great Britain 
claimed the region as far south as 
the Columbia River in latitude 46°. 
By 1 8 18 the dispute over these con- 
flicting claims had grown serious, but 
the two countries agreed to a joint 
occupation of the Oregon Country 
for ten years, and at the end of that 
period they renewed their agreement 
for an indefinite time. Why the 
United States at length laid vigorous 
claim to it and became so eager for 

it that the Democratic party in the presidential campaign 
of 1844 was shouting " Fifty-four forty or fi-ght," can be 
told in a few words. 

272. American Settlers Strengthen Our Claims to 
Oregon. — We had several reasons for claiming Oregon. In 
1792 Captain Gray, of Boston, discovered the Columbia 
River, which he named in honor of his ship; in 1805 Lewis 
and Clark explored this river, and in 181 1 an American 
company established at its mouth the trading Reasons for our 
post, Astoria. But we made a yet stronger <='«'•"* *» Oregon, 
claim by reason of the actual settlements which Americans 
planted there before 1845. These settlements began in a 
small way as early as 1832, missionaries being among the 
first Americans to find their way to the Oregon Country. 




JOHN TYLER. 



270 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED bi'ATES 



Now in this matter of planting- settlements we had the ad= 
vantage of England, because we were nearer the disputed 
territory. For a long time, to be sure, the English Hudson 
Bay Company had been out there making money in fur- 
trading, but this vcompany had planted no settlements. 

The Americans, too, were for many years little inclined 
to seek homes in Oregon. Although small parties of Amer- 



HAP OP TUB 

OREGON COUXTRY 

allowing Iho Called States' Cl» 
to the 51° 40' Parillel 
Scale of Miles. 
50 100 500 300 




ican settlers started for the Columbia River after 1832, no 
large settlements were made until 1843. In that year one 
American etni- thousaud emigrants made the journey of 
eration in 1 843 morc than two thousand miles, braving many 
and 1844. dangers and enduring much hardship. The 

next year two thousand more went out, and by 1845 about 
seven thousand American settlers had made their homes in 
Oregon, The English Hudson Bay Companv held only a 
small number of military posts and trading stations. The 
United States could therefore claim the country by right 
of actual possession. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 271 

By a treaty agreed upon in 1846 both England and the 
United States gave up a part of their claims. The boun- 
dar}^ determined upon was neither 54° 40' as ^^^ oreeon 
desired by the United States, nor 46° as de- boundary disputs 
sired by England, but 49°, as at present. The ^^t"^" "y treaty, 
whole Oregon Country included what is now the States of 
Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, or an area equal to more 
then fifty States like Connecticut. 

273. The Anti-Slavery Movement. — Hitherto we have 
not had occasion to refer to a movement which was des- 
tined to overthrow the most cherished institution of the 
South. In order to understand this movement we must 
notice for a moment the new spirit which was gaining ground 
among the plain people of the countr3\ It has been rightly 
said that when Andrew Jackson went to Washington as 
President he took the people with him. It is jherights of the 
certainly true that at that time the common common people, 
people began to feel a sense of their power such as they had 
not felt before. Jackson supported them in this feeling by 
standing up for their rights and by encouraging them to 
have faith in themselves as controlling the affairs of the na- 
tion. There had been various limitations on suffrage in the 
Eastern States, but now manhood suffrage spread from the 
West to the East. Government by the people and for the 
people had become a reality. 

The anti-slavery movement, led by the abolitionists, was 
partly the product of this democratic spirit, but was mainly 
due to the gradual recognition of the dignity and worth of 
man as man, regardless of race or color. It was felt that 
slavery was out of place in a country where the people are 
the rulers. This sentiment, at first limited to a despised 
few who were called fanatics, rapidly spread through all 
classes of society. 

274. \Villiam Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator. — 
In 1 83 1 William Lloyd Garrison, a young man of slender 
means and little education, began to publish a paper called 
The Liberator. In it he urged that all the slaves in the 
United States should be immediately set free. He went so 

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272 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



far as to declare that it would be better to have no 
Union at all than to have a Union with slavery in k)uq 
section of it. lie boldly asserted that slavery was a " sin 
against God and a crime against man," and that the Consti- 
tution, by giving it support, " was a covenant with death 
and an agreement with hell." 

275. Southern Opposition. — The Southern people, how. 
ever, believed that the immediate abolition of slavery would 




FACSIMILE OF THE HEADING OF GARRISON S PAPER. 



bring about their financial ruin. Inasmuch as the whole 
industrial sj^stem cf the South rested on slavery, they re- 
garded the advocates of immediate abolition as nothing 
less than public enemies of that section. Therefore gov- 
ernors and State legislators in the South were so eager 
to punish the abolitionists that large rewards were of- 
fered for their capture. But the abolitionists were in 
earnest, and by means of lectures, pamphlets, books, and 
newspapers scattered their anti-slavery ideas among the 
people. 

276. Northern Opposition. — Very few people, even in 
the North, had any sympathy at that time with Garrison's 
extreme views about immediate abolition. Northern people 
thought that such agitation could only result in stirring up 
sectional feeling and might end in breaking up the Union. 
To them a Union with slavery seemed better than no Union 
at all. So the abolitionists were for a time disliked in the 
North quite as much as in the South, and in various parts 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 273 

of the North anti-slavery mobs and riots were common for 
some years. 

The opposition to Garrison's teachings became so intense 
that he was mobbed in the streets of Boston (1835). The 
mob in its fury had almost torn the clothing q^^^j^^„ ^^^^^^ 
from his body and was dragging him through in the streets ot 
the streets with a rope around his waist, when ^*'®*°"- 
he was saved from death by the police. Elijah P. Lovejoy 
was mobbed and murdered in Illinois for printing an aboli- 
tion newspaper (1837), and abolition speakers became accus- 
tomed to showers of eggs and stones at public meetings. 

277. Growth of the Abolition Movement. — But in spite 
of all the scorn and contempt heaped upon them, in the 
North and in the South, the heroic William Lloyd Garrison 
and his brave followers would not be silenced. They were, 
like most reformers, extreme in their views and unwise in 
their methods, but they were right in their leading idea that 
slavery was wrong. Their sincerity of purpose had its in- 
fluence, and won the sympathy of many who joined them in 
forming abolition societies, which by 1837 included probably 
150,000 members. Among them were two of the ablest de- 
fenders of the anti-slavery crusade, Wendell Phillips, the 
anti-slavery orator, and John Quincy Adams, the anti-slav- 
ery statesman. 

278. John Quincy Adams Defends the Right of Petition. 
—John Quincy Adams was the champion of the sacred right 
of petition. For many years he stood almost alone in the na- 
tional House of Representatives in his opposition to slavery. 
He presented on the floor of the House hundreds of peti- 
tions that slavery be abolished in the District of Columbia, 
and that the slave-trade between the States be stopped. 

As these petitions were very displeasing to Southern 
members. Congress unwisely voted not to receive them. 
This was not fair play and aroused much S3'm- .. ^^ =iaw" in 
pathy in the North for the abolition movement, the House of Rep- 
The "gag-law," by which the House refused ^«''«"t««^*^«- 
to receive these petitions, continued in effect for many years 
(i 836-1 844), but the heroic efforts of the " old man eloquent,* 



272 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



far as to declare that it would be better to have tio 
Union at all than to have a Union with slavery in v)ue 
section of it. He boldly asserted that slavery was a " sin 
against God and a crime against man," and that the Consti- 
tution, by giving it support, " was a covenant with deatri 
and an agreement with hell." 

275. Southern Opposition. — The Southern people, how- 
ever, believed that the immediate abolition of slavery would 




FAC-SIMILE OF THE HEADING OF GARRISON'S PAPER. 

bring about their financial ruin. Inasmuch as the whole 
industrial S3'stem cf the South rested on slavery, they re- 
garded the advocates of immediate abolition as nothing 
less than public enemies of that section. Therefore gov- 
ernors and State legislators in the South were so eager 
to punish the abolitionists that large rewards were of- 
fered for their capture. But the abolitionists were in 
earnest, and by means of lectures, pamphlets, books, and 
newspapers scattered their anti-slavery ideas among the 
people. 

276. Northern Opposition. — Very few people, even in 
the North, had any sympathy at that time with Garrison's 
extreme views about immediate abolition. Northern people 
thought that such agitation could only result in stirring up 
sectional feeUng and might end in breaking up the Union. 
To them a Union with slavery seemed better than no Union 
at all. So the abolitionists were for a time disliked in the 
North quite as much as in the South, and in various parts 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 273 

of the North anti-slavery mobs and riots were common for 
some years. 

The opposition to Garrison's teachings became so intense 
that he was mobbed in the streets of Boston (1835). The 
mob in its fury had ahiiost torn the clothing ^^^^.^^„ ^^^^^^ 
from his body and was dragging him through «n the streets ot 
the streets with a rope around his waist, when ^*'^*°"- 
he was saved from death by the police. Elijah P. Lovejoy 
was mobbed and murdered in Illinois for printing an aboli- 
tion newspaper (1837), and abolition speakers became accus- 
tomed to showers of eggs and stones at public meetings. 

277. Growth of the Abolition Movement. — But in spite 
of all the scorn and contempt heaped upon them, in the 
North and in the South, the heroic William Lloyd Garrison 
and his brave followers would not be silenced. They were, 
like most reformers, extreme in their views and unwise in 
their methods, but they were right in their leading idea that 
slavery was wrong. Their sincerity of purpose had its in- 
fluence, and won the sympathy of man}'- who joined them in 
forming abolition societies, which by 1837 included probably 
150,000 members. Among them were two of the ablest de- 
fenders of the anti-slavery crusade, Wendell Phillips, the 
anti-slavery orator, and John Quincy Adams, the anti-slav- 
ery statesman. 

278. John Quincy Adams Defends the Right of Petition. 
— John Quincy Adams was the champion of the sacred right 
of petition. For many years he stood almost alone in the na- 
tional House of Representatives in his opposition to slavery. 
He presented on the floor of the House hundreds of peti- 
tions that slavery be abolished in the District of Columbia, 
and that the slave-trade between the States be stopped. 

As these petitions were very displeasing to Southern 
members, Congress unwisely voted not to receive them. 
This was not fair play and aroused much sym- .. ^^ ,^ ., j^ 
pathy in the North for the abolition movement, the House of Rep- 
The "gag-law," by which the House refused '■«"nt«"ve8. 
to receive these petitions, continued in effect for many years 
(1836-1844), but the heroic efforts of the " old man eloquent,' 



274 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

as Adams was rightly called, at last gained for these anti 
slavery petitions a respectful consideration (1844). 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. What has the telegraph done for the world ? 

2. Upon what did we base our claim to Oregon ? 

3. What reason is assigned in the text for the origin of the anti-sla.very 

movement? What position did William Lloyd Garrison take upon 
the slavery question? 

4. How did Southern opposition to the abolitionists express itself ? How 

did Northern opposition? What do you admire in William Lloyd 
Garrison and his anti-slavery friends ? What connection did John 
Quincy Adams have with the abolition movement ? 

5. Read the account of his untiring efforts as described in Morse's "John 

Quincy Adams." 



TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR 

279. The Annexation of Texas. — About 1820 Southern 
people began to migrate to Texas, which was then a part 
of Mexico. By the year 1835 several colonies had been 
planted by these settlers from the Southern States. Being 
dissatisfied with Mexican rule the Texans revolted (i835>, 
defeated the Mexicans, and drove them out of Texas. They 
then declared their independence and sought annexation to 
the United States. 

The South was eager for this annexation, because Texas 
lay south of the slavery line established by the Missouri 
whytheSouth Compromise in 1820. If Texas, which was as 
favored the large as fifty States like Connecticut, could be 

annexation of Texas, ^j J^^ ^^ ^^^^ g|^^g territory of the South, the 

cause of slavery would be materially strengthened. In time, 
four or five slave States would be made out of this vast area, 
and the South would thereby have a larger number of sena- 
tors. This increase of voting power in the Senate would 
enable her to maintain, for some years at least, the balance 
between the slave States and the free States. The North 
entered a vigorous protest against annexation, but the South 
won, and Texas entered the Union as a slave State in 1845- 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 



275 



280. Attitude of the North and the South Toward the 
Mexican War. — One of the reasons urged by the North 
against annexation was, that it would cause trouble with the 
Mexicans, who refused to acknowledge the independence of 
Texas. But this objection had no weight with the South- 
-"^rn slaveholders. A war with Mexico might result in the 
acquisition of more slave territory, and hence such a war 
was not, from their stand-point, un- 
desirable. The North, however, ear- 
nestly opposed the acquisition of any 
more slave territory, and just as ear. 
nestly opposed a war with Mexico. 

281. The Causes of the Mexican 
War. — Mexico wished to avoid seri- 
ous trouble with the United States 
about the annexation of Texas. But 
before the question could be settled 
there arose a dispute about the 
boundary line between Texas and 
Mexico. Texas claimed the territory 
to the Rio Grande; Mexico claimed 
it to the Nueces River. The terri- 
tory in dispute was large and there- 
fore desirable both to the South and 
to Mexico. While the difficulty was 
still under discussion, however, our government took steps 
*hat were almost certain to bring on war. 

General Taylor had been sent down in command ot 
American troops to support the cause of Texas, and was 
ordered to advance into the disputed terri- General xayior 
tory. He did so, taking a position on the Rio fi^T^^lT. 

■^ ' 01 the disputed ter- 

Grande at Fort Brown, opposite Matamoras.^ ritory. 

The Mexicans justly considered this an invasion of their 

territory and therefore an act of war. It certainly looked 




JAMES K. POLK. 



' Before this time President Polk had sent an envoy to Mexico, whose govern- 
ment refused to receive him. This action of Mexico aroused the resentment of our 
government. 

James K. Polk, eleventh President of the United States (1845-1849), was boro 



876 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




THE STORMING OF CHAPUI.TEPEC. 
A n incident in one of the important battles of the Mexican War, 

like an attempt to provoke them to make an attack on 
the American troops. At all events, this was the result of 
General Taylor's movement, A Mexican force crossed the 
Rio Grande and killed some American dragoons belonging 
to a reconnoitring party. 

At once President Polk sent to Congress a message in 

in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1795, and died in 1849. In 1806 he 
removed to Tennessee. After being graduated with distinguished honors from the 
University of North Carolina he entered upon the study of law. He served the 
State of Tennessee not only as governor but as member of the national House of 
Representatives. His manners were simple, and his private life sincere and 
blameless. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 275 

which he declared, " War exists notwithstanding all our ef- 
forts to avoid it — exists by the act of Mexico herself. Mex- 
ico has invaded our territory and shed Amer- congress declares 
ican blood upon American soil." Congress ^«'■• 
therefore declarec that war existed " by the act of Mexico," 
and at once sent troops and supplies to invade Mexican ter- 
ritory (1846). 

282. The Character of the Struggle. — The American 
plan of campaign was comprehensive. It indicated that the 
purpose of the war was the conquest of new territory. Al- 
though the Americans met with stout opposition from 
Mexico, the American commanders easily carried out their 
plans. The war was one-sided. The battles were all won 
by the Americans, even in cases where the Mexicans great- 
ly outnumbered our troops. 

There were many reasons for the defc t of the Mexicans. 
Their government was weak and poor ; their generals were 
inefficient; and their troops were without discipline and 
proper equipment. Although the Mexicans were spirited 
and brave, they were greatly inferior to the Americans in 
intelligence, dash, and endurance. 

283. Results of the ^A^ar. — In less than two years 
Mexico was conquered, and her entire territory was at the 
mercy of the United States. But however unfair our gov- 
ernment may have been in bringing on the war with this 
weak country, it was willing to pay for any territory it 
might secure. Mexico received more than eighteen million 
dollars' for the cession it made to the United States. Nev- 
ertheless, we cannot but regret that our people, distinguished 
for their keen sense of justice, should have consented to 
wage this war in the interests of slavery. But the results 
of the war seemed decidedly favorable to the slavehold- 
ers, who thought they had gained a vast region adapted to 
the use of slave labor. 

If we include in the territory acquired by the Mexican 
war the State of Texas and the parts of Arizona and New 

*The sum paid to Mexico was $15,000,000. The United States also satisfief 
claims of American citizens against Mexico to the amount of about $3,500,000. 



278 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Mexico secured by the Gadsden Purchase' a little later, the 
whole area is equal to more than one hundred and ninety 
States like Connecticut. 

284. The Wilmot Proviso. — But then* was another re- 
sult which made the war a costly one to the United States, 
and that was the increased bitterness between the two sec- 
tions over the slavery question. The South insisted that 
slavery should go into the new territory, and the North in- 
sisted that it should not. In fact, this quarrel over the 
question of slavery in the new territory began even before 
the war was over. For when in 1846 it seemed pretty 
evident what the result of the fighting would be, David 
Wilmot, a representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, 
proposed that slavery should be forever prohibited in all 
the territory which should be acquired from Mexico, This 
was called the Wljmot Proviso. It failed of enactment by 
Congress, but it expressed a policy which was soon to be 
made a guiding principle by a great political party. Two 
years later this principle became the political watchword 
of the Free Soil Party and later of the Republican Party. 
The Wilmot Proviso marked the swift approach of the 
downfall of slavery in the United States. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Why did the South favor the annexation of Texas ? What was the 

attitude of the North and the South toward the Mexican War? 

2. What were the causes of this war ? How did it begin ? Give three 

reasons why the Mexicans were defeated in every battle. 

3. What.were the principal results of the war? Including Texas and the 

Gadsden Purchase, how many States like your own w^ould the whole 
territory acquired by the Mexican War equal? What was the Wil- 
mot Proviso ? 

4. Read Thomas Nelson Page's "Old South." 

^ In 1853 a treaty was negotiated through James Gadsden which settled the dis- 
puted boundary with Mexico. The United States paid $10,000,000 and gained the 
Mesilla Valley, an area of about twenty million acres. It formed the southern 
part of what is now New Mexico and Arizona, and became known as the Gadsden 
Purchase. 



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279 



THE MEXICAN CESSION AND THE COMPROMISE OF 185O 

285. Discovery of Gold in California and Its Results 
(1848). — California had been valued for its fertile soil and its 
delightful climate. It had also the fine harbor of San Fran- 
cisco. These attractions drew a few settlers, who in 1848 
made a great discovery. Some workmen, in digging a mill- 




SUrTEn S MILL, WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST FOUND IN CALIFORNIA. 

race for Captain Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, discovered 
shining particles of gold in a stream flowing into the Sacra- 
mento River, about 100 miles northeast of San Francisco. 
Upon examination of the surrounding country, the soil, the 
river-beds, and the rocks were found to be rich with gold. 
It was a wonderful discovery. Before the close of 1861 
these mines had yielded more than $500,000,000. 

As soon as the news spread abroad people were almost 
beside themselves with excitement, and at once rushed for 
the gold region from all the settled parts of Excitement of the 
the United States. Farmers, carpenters, store- people, 
keepers, and professional men were seized with a desire for 
sudden wealth, and left their work to seek the golden 

treasure. Vessels coming into the harbors of San Fran- 

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THE SLAVERY QUESTION 281 

(i) By greatly increasing the gold in circulation, it stimu- 
lated trade and commerce; (2) by developing the Pacific 
coast it led about twenty years later to the building of the 
first Pacific railroad ; (3) it had, as we shall now see, an 
important bearing upon the slavery question. 

286. California Seeks Admission into the Union as a 
Free State (1849).' — In about a year after the discovery of 
gold there were people enough in California for a State. 
But Congress had been so busy discussing the slavery ques- 
tion that it had not established any government at all there. 
This was most unfortunate, for among the gold-diggers 

, there were many thieves and ruffians, who were very dis- 
orderly and lawless. Hence the better class of citizens 
were forced to act without waiting for Congress. They 
organized a government of their own, established order, 
and applied for admission into the Union in 1849. As a 
large majority of the people were from the North, they 
wished California to be made a free State. 

287. Difficult Slavery Questions in 1850. — It will be re- 
membered that the jNlissouri compromise was called forth 

'Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States (1849-1850), was 
born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1784, and died in 1850. While he was yet 
an infant his parents removed to Kentucky, which continued to be his adopted 
State until 1841, when he made his family home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Al- 
though his opportunities for education were very limited, his keen desire foi 
knowledge led him to study with care ancient and modern history. He became a 
daring and skilful soldier, serving his country with great distinction as brigadier- 
general in the Mexican War. " Old Rough and Ready," as he was fondly called 
by his many admirers, indicates that he was a popular hero. He died in the sec- 
ond year of his Presidency. 

Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States (1850-1853), was 
born in Cayuga County. New York, in 1800, and died in 1874. In early youth he 
Jearned the meaning of a life of struggle. Like Lincoln and Garfield, he was a 
poor boy, and like them he overcame, by invincible determination, almost insur- 
mountable difficulties. Until fourteen years of age he worked on a farm nine 
months of the year, and attended the primitive schools of those times the remain- 
ing three. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a trade, but managed to find some 
time for hard study. Later he studied law, and won for himself an enviable posi. 
tion at the bar. Having been elected Vice-President in 1848, he became President 
on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850. His kindlv manner and never-failing 
courtesy made him very popular. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



by the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. The whole 
question was opened afresh by the Mexican cession. 
Should the territory acquired from Mexico be slave, or 
free? The North argued that inasmuch as this territory 
had always been free, it should continue to be so. The 
South was divided in opinion. Some of the Southerners 
washed to extend the line of the Missouri Compromise, 36° 
30', as a boundary to the Pacific. Otht rs claimed, as in 




MODES OF TRAVEL IN THE WEST. AN OLD STAGK-COACH AND PRAIRIE SCHOONER- 

1820, that Congress had no constitutional right to interfere 
with slavery ; and that the people in the territories ought 
to be allowed to decide for themselves whether they should 
come into the Union as free or slave States. 

The settlement of the dispute was one of extreme im- 
portance. It involved several points of issue : (1) California 
wished to come in as a free State, but in that case the bal- 
ance of power in the Senate would be disturbed. Hence 
there were strong objections from the South. (2) The anti- 
slr.very men continued to urge upon Congress legislation 
that would abolish slavery, or, at least, the slave-trade in 



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283 



the District of Columbia. Whether or not Congress had a 
right to meddle with slavery in the territories, it clearly 
had a right to enact a measure against slavery giaver in cantor- 
in the District of Columbia, which was under nia and the Dis- 
the direct control of Congress. We have *"«=*«♦ Co'"™''!*, 
already seen how John Quincy Adams bravely struggled 
for years in behalf of legislative action against slavery in 
this district. (3) The South bitterly complained that the 
North was violating the Fugitive 
Slave Law, by aiding the escape 
of slaves from their masters to 
Canada. 

All these difficult slavery ques- 
tions were pressing for satisfactory 
answers, and many people began 
to fear a dissolution of the Union. 

Threats of secession Threats of seces- 

were freely made by »'<*"• 
some of the more hot-headed pro- 
slavery men. It was evident that 
prompt and wise measures must be 
taken to quiet the violent feelings 
among people in both sections. 

288. The Compromise of 1850. — Henry Clay had already 
fairly gained the title of " Peace-maker " by taking a leading 
part in securing the Missouri Compromise in Henry ciay the 
1820, and the compromise in 1833 settling the "Peace-maker." 
difficulties brought about by the tariff and nullification in 
South Carolina. In his old age he was again called upon 
to help meet these new difficulties in 1850. He therefore 
prepared what was called the Omnibus Bill, because it made 
provision for settling many questions. 

This famous Omnibus Bill, or Compromise of 1850, con- 
tained four essential clauses, two of which favored the North 
and two the South. They were as follows: The four essential 
(i) California was to be admitted as a free clauses of the 
State (for the North) ; (2) but in the rest of the ©""'bus biii. 
Mexican cession, divided into the two territories of Utah 




MILLARD FILLMORE. 





284 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

and New Mexico, the people were to decide for themselves 
whether or not they would have slaves (for the South); (3) 
the slave-iradc, not slavery, was to be abolished in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia (for the North); (4) but a vigorous and 
exacting fugitive slave law was to be passed (for the South). 
Many people thought that tliis compromise would bring 
peace and good-will throughout the country. 

289. The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Results in the 
North. — Congress had directed that the Fugitive Slave Law 

enacted in 1793 should be car- 
ried out by the various State 
governments. As the South 
charged that the Northern 
States Vv'ere neglecting to en- 
force this law in a proper 
manner, the fugitive slave 
,^ _ ,, clause was inserted in the 

FUGITIVE SLA\T, ADVERTISEMENTS. ^ . r 

Compromise of 1850, as has 
just been stated. In accordance with this clause Congress 
passed a rigid Fugitive Slave Law, which was to be en- 
forced not by State but by Federal officers. 

By the provisions of this law fugitive slaves, or negroes 
claimed as fugitive slaves, vrere to have no trial by jury and 
were not to be permitted to testify in their own defence. 
All citizens, if called upon, were required to aid the United 
States marshal in capturing runaway slaves. Many cases 
of cruelty, injustice, and violence followed. 

The indignation of the North rose to fever heat, and 
soon the "higher law" of right and justice was openly pro- 
claimed. Some people in the North were ready to defy a 
law that was in their view cruel and inhuman. They took 
the same attitude toward the law that South CaroHna 
took in the Nullification Act. 

290. Personal Liberty Bills and Their Results in the 
South. — The outcome of this intense opposition to the Fugi- 
tive Slave Law was the passage, by many Northern States, 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 285 

of thfe Personal Liberty Bills. These laws granted trial by 
jury to runaway slaves and in other ways protected them 
from the severity of the Fugitive Slave Law. Naturally 
these Personal Liberty Laws embittered the Southern 
slave-holders, who accused the North of a desire to break 
up slavery. They further asserted that in passing these 
Personal Liberty Bills the Northern States were nullifying 
an act of Congress and violating the Constitution. 

291. The Underground Railroad. — Some people in the 
North secretly aided the runaway slaves in escaping to 
Canada. The fugitives made their way to freedom by 
means of the so-called "Underground Railroad." The 
"stations" were the houses of persons w^ho received, the 
negroes at any hour, night or day, giving them food and 
shelter and keeping them in a safe hiding-place until they 
could be sent on to the next "station." In this way they 
were fed and cared for until they reached Canada, the 
northern end of this strange railroad. It is estimated that 
over 30,000 fugitive slaves escaped to Canada between 1830 
and i860. 

292. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). — In the midst of the 
stirring discussion about slavery "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, appeared. During the first year 
after its pubHcation more than 200,000 copies were sold. 
It was read in all parts of Europe as well as in the United 
States. It not only appealed to the imagination, but it 
also touched the heart and conscience. It rapidly caused 
people to feel that slavery was more than a political ques- 
tion. Through its influence many men and women now 
joined the abolitionists in the conviction that slavery was a 
great moral evil. 

293. Commodore Perry Secures a Treaty with Japan 
(1854). — WQiile all this discussion of slavery was going on, 
Commodore Perry sailed into the ports of Japan with a 
fleet of steamers. Previous to that time the Japanese had 
been suspicious of all foreign nations and had refused to 



286 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



trade with them. Commodore Perry won the good-will of 
these people, and they entered into a treaty of commerce 
with our countr}'. From that time Japan has been on a 
most friendly footing with the United States. Through 
her trade relations with this country and Europe she has 
come into touch with Western civilization, and has sur- 
prised the world by the eagerness with which she has 
adopted it. 

294. Filibustering Expeditions (1851-1860) ; The Os- 
tend Manifesto (1854). — By the admission of California as 

a free State in 1850 the balance be- 
tween the free and the slave States 
was destroyed, for now there were 
sixteen free to fifteen slave States. 
The outlook for slavery was so 
gloomy that the Southerners turned 
their eyes toward Cuba, as they had 
turned them, a few years before, 
The slaveholders toward Tcxas. Slavery 
eager for Cuba. already cxistcd in Cuba, 
and if the island could be secured to 
the Union it would furnish two more 
slave States. Our government was 
on friendly terms with Spain, and no 
pretext for war existed when, in 1851, 
the first filibustering expedition started out from New Or- 
leans. The scheme ended in disaster, but there were still 
many greedy eyes turned toward Cuba. 

Some people thought that Spain might be induced by 
treaty to give it up, and even advocated seizure if it could 
not be got by cession. In 1854, therefore, the United States 
ministers to England, France, and Spain, acting under in- 
struction from President Pierce,* met at Ostend, Belgium, 

' Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President of the United States (1853-1857), was 
born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in 1804, and died in 1869. In his class 
at Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated, were Henry W. Longfellow 
and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the latter being a life-long friend. Entering the army 
at the outbreak of the Mexican War, he was so brave that he was promoted to the 
rank of brigadier-general. After serving in both Houses of Congress he was elected 




FRANKLIN PIERCE. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 287 

to discuss the situation. Thej declared, in the Ostend Man- 
ifesto, that Cuba ought to belong- to the United States, and 
that if Spain sliould refuse to sell it we should secure it by 
force. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that the United 
States did not adopt any such policy. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Trace on your map the three routes to California from the Eastern 

States. What were the results of the discovery of gold ? 

2. Explain why California sought admission into the Union as a free 

State. What were the three difficult slavery questions in 1850 ? 
% In what w^ay was the Missouri Compromise called forth by the 
Louisiana Purchase ? What question w^as asked about the Mexican 
cession? How did the North answer the question ? How did the 
South ? 

4. What two clauses in the Compromise of 1850 favored the North ? 

What two the South ? 

5. What was the Fugitive Slave Law^, and what were its results ? Ex- 

plain the Personal Liberty Bills and the Underground Railroad. 
What effect had " Uncle Tom's Cabin " upon the slavery question? 

6. What was the purpose of the filibustering expedition? What do you 

think of the Ostend Manifesto? 

7. Read the chapters on slavery in Coffin's " Building the Nation." 



THE FIGHT FOR SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES 

295. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854.) — By the Com- 
promise of 1850 the people in all the territory acquired 
from Mexico, except California, were to de- The south desires 
cide for themselves whether or not they would « '"•■*her exten- 

J sion of slave terrl* 

have slavery. But this act was not enough, tory. 
The need ot the South for a still further extension of slave 
territory to offset the rapidly growing power of the free 
North became more pressing every year. 

By the Missouri Compromise of 1820 slavery was for- 
ever prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north and west 

to the Presidency in 1852. Although he believed in " State Rights " and opposed 
all anti-slavery movements, he urged the people of New Hampshire, in the stormy 
days following the attack upon Fort Sumter in 186 1, to stand by the Union. 
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288 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

of Missouri, or north of the parallel of 36° 30'. In 1854 
Stephen A. Douglas, a Democratic Senator from Illinois, 
claimed that the Compromise of 1850 had repealed the Mis- 
souri Compromise ; moreover, that Congress had no Consti- 
tutional right in 1820 to shut out slavery from the Louisiana 
Purchase. He therefore proposed the erection of the two 
territories of Kansas and Nebraska, in which the settlers 
should decide whether they would have slavery or not. 
This measure, known as the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, became 
a law in 1854. 

It had many important results: (i) It took from Con- 
gress all authority over slavery in the territories, and gave 
Results of the ^'^^^ authority to the people; (2) it opened to 
Kansas-Nebraska slavcry all the territories belonging to the 
^"'- United States ; (3) it led to a bitter struggle 

over Kansas ; (4) and it reopened with renewed bitterness 
the slavery controversy, which could never again be set- 
tled by peaceable means. 

296. The Struggle for the Control of Kansas. — Since 
the people now had authority to decide the question of free- 
dom or slavery in Kansas, both the North and the South 
made a desperate effort to gain control of the territory. 
Emigration was no longer a matter of private or personal 
Emi rant aid interests. Thcrc were now urgent political 

secieties In the rcasous why emigration to Kansas should be 
'^'"""'* encouraged from both sections. Meetings 

were therefore held in many leading Northern cities, and 
money was raised for the support of emigrant aid societies 
to send settlers to Kansas. Soon long trains of emigrant 
wagons were winding their way across the prairies. As 
Southern sympathizers refused to let them pass across 
Missouri, they were obliged to go north through lov/a. 

The South now hastened its preparations to get control 
of Kansas. But in this struggle it was at a disadvan- 
tage, because slave-holders were afraid to risk taking their 
slaves into a territory that might, by vote of the people, be- 
come free. The South, therefore, did not make such an 
organized effort to settle Kansas as was made in the North. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 



289 



Two rival govern- 



Two rival gov- 
ernments in 
Kansas. 



The pro-slavery men, however, made hasty preparations 
to do all they could. Arming themselves, Bloodshed in 
they crossed the border and began to plant Kansas, 
colonies. Both sides were aroused, and both took part in 
the plundering, burning, and murdering. 

297. Triumph for the Free-State Men.— On election 
days Southern sympathizers who came to be called 
" border ruffians," went over to Kansas in large numbers 
and cast fraudulent votes in the in- 
terests of slavery. By false voting 
and false counting of ballots the 
pro-slavery party was for some 
time ahead, 
ments were estab- 
lished. Although the 
anti-slavery men 
were clearly in the majority, Pres- 
ident Pierce supported the pro- 
slavery faction and used the influ- 
ence of the administration to secure 
the admission of Kansas into the 
Union as a slave State. But in 

spite of all that could be done by President Pierce and the 
pro-slavery leaders, the cause of freedom triumphed. 
After three years (185 5-1 858) of this civil war, in what was 
truly called " Bleeding Kansas," the free-State men won a 
victor)?^, and Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861 
with an antislavery constitution. 

298. Assault on Charles Sumner (1856). — During the 
fiery debating in Congress over the difficulties in Kansas, 
the distinguished anti-slavery leader, Charles Sumner, of 
Massachusetts, made in the Senate a vigorous speech on the 
" Crime against Kansas." In this speech he severely attacked 
Senator Butler, from South Carolina. Sumner's Southern 
enemies became more intense in their hatred of him than 
ever before. In the midst of the exciting days which fol- 
lowed. Senator Butler's nephew, Preston S. Brooks, who 
was a representative in Congress from South Carolina, came 




CHARLES SUMNER. 



290 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



The Whigs. 



suddenly upon Mr. Sumner while writing at his desk In the 
Senate Chamber and assaulted him. Again and again 
Brooks struck Sumner over the head with a cane until he 
Resuitsofthe rcclcd and fell senseless to the floor. Sumner 
•ssauit. cii(^ not recover from the shock for over three 

years. This assault increased the bitterness of feeling and 
made both sections more determined in their actions. 

299. New Political Parties (1854). — Slavery had brought 
about in political parties great changes, which we will now 
briefly consider. In 1833 the National Repub* 
lican Party (see par. 244) was succeed.^.u by the 
Whig Party, of which Henry Clay became the leader. This 
party opposed the Mexican War. At the close of this 
war many Northern Whigs and Democrats believed in the 
principle of the Wilmot Proviso — that slavery should be 
prohibited in all the ^lexican cession. They became anti- 
slavery men and, joining the Abolitionists, formed the Free 
Soil Party. But while many Northern Whigs became anti- 
slavery men, many pro-slavery Whigs in the South joined 
the Democrats. The result was the breaking into frag, 
ments of the Whig Party after 1852. 

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854) caused 
still another split in parties. By reason of this measure all 
The Republican votcrs in the North who opposed the further 
P^fty- extension of slavery, whether they had been 

previously known as Democrats or Free Soilers, called them- 
selves Anti-Nebraska Men. In the following year the 
" Anti-Nebraska Men " began to be called the Republican 
Party, which has ever since been known by that name, Tlic 
corner-stone of the Republican Party was the principle con- 
tained in the Wilmot Proviso. 



Table of Immigration from Europe for the Years 1845-1856. 



Number of 
Year. Immigrants. 

1845 114,371 

1846 154,416 

1847 234,968 

1848 226,527 

1849 297,024 

1850 310,004 



Number of 
Year. Immigrants. 

185 1 379.466 

1852 371.603 

1853 368,645 

i8=;4 427.833 

1855 200,877 

1856 200,436 



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291 



300. Immigration from Europe. — Before 1840 the total 
number of foreign immigrantsinto the United States during 
any one year never exceeded 100,000. A reference to the 
immigration table given above will show that from 1845 
onward, especially after 1848, the increase was surprisingly 
great. During almost the whole decade from 1840 to 1850 
there was in Europe much unrest, and this led The reasons for 
to political disturbances extending through ]^]S^tgr^tZT' 
many European countries. In 1846 and 1847 from Europe, 
a terrible famine in Ireland caused thousands to seek 
homes in the United States. The discovery of gold in 
California, also, had a great influence in stimulating the 
desire to seek a land where the working man could have 
prosperity, political freedom, and happiness. As can be 
seen by noting the rapid increase of population in many 
of our Western States and Territories, a large number oi 
these immigrants joined the westward movement. 

Table of Population in Western States and Territories in 1840, 1850. 

AND i860. 



States. 



Illinois. .. 
Indiana . . 
Iowa .... 

Michigan . 
Wisconsin 
California. 
Minnesota 

Utah 

Colorado . 
Kansas . . . 
Nebraska . 
Oregon 



472,254 

478,698 

42,924 

2 1 I , ■: 60 
30.749 



Population. 



1850. 
846,034 

977.154 
191,881 

395.071 
304,756 

91,636 
6,038 

11.354 



704.323 
339.000 

673.844 
742,314 
774,710 

361.353 

171,864 

40,214 

34,231 
106,579 

28,759 
52.337 



It is significant that nearly all of them sought the North. 
They avoided making their homes in the vvhy immigranta 
South, because there labor was servile and would not settle 
degrading. In fact, the slave-holders did not «" the south. 
encourage European immigrants to come South because 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



they thought the presence of free white laborers might 
dissatisfy the slaves with their condition and lead them to 
rise in insurrection. The slave-holders even guarded against 
the spread of intelligence among their slaves, on account of 
the discontent intelligence was sure to bring about among 
the blacks. 

301. Economic and Social Conditions in the South. — 
We see, then, that slavery in the South prevented the in- 
crease of population there by immigration, and thus hin- 




.v'.^> 








OLD PLANTATION DAYS. 



dered the most rapid development of its resources. There 
were reasons, also, witliin the South's own boundaries, which 
explain why it did not keep pace with the North in indus- 
Three reasons trial prosperity I (i) The negroes were so lazy 
bi'hind^the"Nk)Jth and ignorant that they did not work so effec- 
in prosperity. ^j^.^jy ^g ^^i^^ would havc douc if they had 

been free and intelligent white men. (2) Since slavery de- 
graded labor, the large class of people in the South knowm as 
''poor whites" would work but little. (3) The planters 
themselves spent most of their time in leisure, leaving their 
business in charge of overseers. 

When we bear in mind that of the three great classes of 
people in the South — the planters, the poor whites, and the 
slaves — the planters did nothing, the poor whites as little as 
they could, and the slaves not more than half as much as the 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 293 

same number of intelligent free laborers would have done, 
we cannot be surprised that the South was so rapidly out- 
stripped by the North in productive power and therefore 
in wealth and prosperity. 

.302. Economic and Social Conditions in the North. — 
While there were three great classes in the South, there 
was in the North, so far as production was concerned, but 
one. In this section nearly all belonged to the working, 
producing class. In the North, there was the busy hum of 
industry. A spirit of enterprise, manifesting itself in agri- 
culture, manufacture, trade, and commerce, was everywhere 
present. All labor was honorable and idlers were few. 
Such being the industrial conditions, the North was soon 
far ahead of the South in population, in productive power, 
and in political influence. 

303. Influence of the West in Favor of Nationalism. — 
Again glancing over the tables of population in some oi 
the Western States and territories from 1840 to 1850 and 
from 1850 to i860, we shall see that the increase was very 
great. Nor was it all due to foreign immigration. Much 
of it was the result of the large movement of population 
from the Eastern States. The prairie lands, so fertile and 
so easily brought under cultivation, invited The prairies and 
the laborer to begin life anew where indus- the railroad. 
trial conditions highly favored prosperity. The railroad 
encouraged the movement by making the transportation 
of emigrants and goods rapid, easy, and inexpensive. 

It is worth while to notice that only a small part of this 
westward emigration was from the South, p^.^^^.y ^^,^^.^„, 
The West was being rapidly occupied by men between the North 
who were not in sympathy with the slave- ^"'^* ^ *^*' 
holding planter. Moreover, when these people in the West 
began to find a market for their corn, wheat, and other 
produce, they traded with the North because the North 
had what they needed. The North and the West found 
mutual profit in trade. With common interests they soon 
found themselves having common sympathies and common 
political aims and purposes. 



294 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Year by year the West became more and more like the 
North. Her loyalty to the Union was unquestioned. Hav- 
ing received statehood from the national government, the 
Western States had very little of that State Rights feeling 
National feeling SO commou in the South. They were first of 
In the West. q1[ Americans, ready to stand up for the pres- 

ervation of the Union whenever it should be in danger. 
When the inevitable clash of arms between the North and 
the South came in 1861, the West- 
erner was on the side of the North, 
and shouldered his musket in behalf 
of a Union which he had unwittingly 
helped to weld into a solid, indivisible 
nation. 

304. The Financial Panic of 1857. 
— Tlic great financial panics of the 
last century occurred at intervals of 
about twenty years. You will recall 
that the panic of 1837 was preceded 
by unusual business prosperity. The 
same condition existed before the 
panic of 1857. It was easy to get 
money, and men were seized with the 
desire to make fortunes by speculat- 
Railroads were built faster than they 
could get business support. The discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia and Australia had increased the money in circulation 
Causes of the ^"d thus contributed to the general feeling of 
P»"*<^- prosperit}'. Extravagance in living followed. 

Trade was greatly stimulated, and soon there was an 
over-production of goods. There had been too much 
credit, and that brought on the panic. In August, 1857, 
the crash came and everywhere there was great business 
distress. 

305. The Dred Scott Decision (1857). ' — The Kansas- 
Nebraska Bill (1854) deprived Congress of ail authority over 

' This noted decision was made public in the first year of Buchanan's adminis- 
tration. James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861), was 




JAMES BUCHANAN. 



ins: in Western lands. 



THE SLAVERY QUESTION 295 

the question of slavery in the Territories and left it wholly 
in the hands of the people. Then began the The principle of 
struggle between the two sections for control. eign"y "^a^ppfied t* 
It was soon evident that the North, with ^" ^^^ Territories, 
greatly superior resources, must win the other Territories 
just as it had won in Kansas. 

The South was dismayed at the prospect and looked 
about for some means of escaping from the apparently 
hopeless situation. The means was found in the Dred 
Scott Decision (1857). Dred Scott was a slave belonging 
to an army surgeon. In 1834 this surgeon went with his 
slave from Missouri to Illinois, and some years afterward 
to Minnesota Territory. On the return of master and 
slave to Missouri, Dred Scott claim.ed that, inasmuch as he 
had been taken by his owner into free territory, he himself 
was a free man. The case was finally tried in the Supreme 
Court of the United States. The decision supported the 
position the pro-slavery men had taken. 

It declared, in effect, (i) that a slave, according to the 
Constitution, was not a person but a chattel or mere piece 
of property; (2) that the Missouri Compromise, forbidding 
slavery in a part of the Louisiana Purchase, was unconstitu- 
tional, since Congress had no right to interfere with slavery 
in the Territories; (3) and that a master had as much right 
to take his slave with him into a free State as he had to take 
his horse, his cow, or any other kind of personal property. 

This decision was far-reaching. It meant nothing less 
than the extension of slavery all over the Union. It inten- 
sified the anti-slavery feeling in the North, where many 
threatened that they would not obey the decision. 

306. John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry (1859). — John 
Brown was a thorough-going abolitionist, who had taken a 

bom near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1791, and died in 1868. After his gradu- 
ation from Dickinson College he studied law. He filled many public positions of 
great responsibility. Besides serving in both Houses of Congress, he became Sec- 
retary of State under President Polk and minister to England in Pierce's adminis- 
tration. As President of the United States during the trying years just preceding 
the Civil War, he was severely blamed by the Unionists because he did not take a 
firm stand in opposition to the secession movement. 



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ENGINE HOUSE, HARPER'S FERRY, WHERE JOHN BROWT^ WAS 
CAPTURED BY UNITED STATES MARINES. 



prominent part in the struggle for Kansas. He had a strong 
John Brown and wiU, a ruggcd, intense nature, and was deeply 
his plan. rehgious. He beheved that slavery was a 

curse to the nation, and that he himself was an instrument 
in God's hands to put an end to it in this country. The 
only way to carry out his purpose was, as he thought, to 
make slave-property insecure. His plan was to aid the 
slaves in rising and then escaping to the mountains of Vir- 
ginia, which would become a rallying-place for the negroes. 
Having this aim in \'iew, in the autumn of 1859, with about 
twenty followers, he seized the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. 

His plan met with disastrous failure. He was captured, 
brought to a speedy trial, and hanged. Throughout his 
Results of the trial hc was calm and dignified, and he died 
'^'"^- bravely. The South was alarmed and angered 

by this deliberate plan to stir up a general uprising of 



THE SLAVERY' QUESTION 297 

slaves. A large majority of the Northern people also bit- 
terly condemned it. John Brown's raid increased the mis- 
understanding and widened the breach between the two 
sections. The irrepressible conflict was now at hand. 

TO THE PUPIL 

I. How did the Kansas-Nebraska bill differ from the Missouri Compromise ? 

What important results did it have ? What struggle did the North and 

and South make to get control of Kansas ? 
a. You can easily see how such a struggle would stir up bitter feelings in 

the people of the North and of the South. The assault on Charles 

Sumner illustrates well the intensity and depth of this feeling. 

3. You will do well to note that the "Anti-Nebraska Men " banded together 

on the one issue — that there should be no further extension of slavery. 
The members of the Republican Party did the same. The fight all 
along, except in the case of the Abolitionists, was about the extension 
of slavery into new States. 

4. Why did European immigrants refuse to settle in the South? Give 

three reasons why the South fell behind the North in prosperity. 

5. Account for the friendly relations between the North and the ^A^est, and 

for the national feeling in the West. 

6. Before taking up the Dred Scott decision review the following topics: 

Natural boundary between the free and the slave States before the 
purchase of Louisiana; the Missouri Compromise (1820); the Com- 
promise of 1850 ; the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854). 

7. What extreme ground was taken by the slave-holders in the Dred 

Scott Decision ? W^hat were the far-reaching results of this decision ? 

8. What was John Brown's plan ? What were the results of his raid ? 



CHAPTER XVIII 

SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR (i860- 1 865) 

REFERENCES: 5>cribner's Popular History of the United States, IV. ; An- 
drew's United States, II.; Burgess's Civil War and Reconstruction ; Wilson's 
Division and Reunion ; Coffin's Buildini,'^ the Nation ; Richardson's History of 
Our Country; Champlin's Younc; Folks' History of the War for the Union; 
Barnes's Popular History of the United States. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Wilson's A History of the American People, IV.; 
Comte de Paris's Civil War; Draper's Civil War; Rhodes's United States, 
III. and IV. ; Ropes's Story of the Civil War, I. and II. ; Greeley's American 
Conflict; Alexander H. Stephens's War Between the States; Jefferson 
Davis's Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government; Qoldwin Smith's 
United States ; Pollard's Lost Cause ; Spear's The History of Our Navy, IV. ; 
Morris's Half Hours with American History, II.; Ropes's Army Under Pope; 
Doubleday's Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Fiske's The Mississippi Valley 
in the Civil War; Cox's March to the Sea; Pond's Shenandoah Valley, 
Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation; Coffin's Freedom Triumphant; Coffin's 
Marching to Victory; Soley's Sailor Boys of '61 ; Soley's Blockade and 
Cruisers ; Parker's Recollections of a Naval Officer ; Hague's Blockaded 
Family; Maury's Recollections of a Virginian; Dodge's Bird's-Eye View of 
the Civil War; Johnson's Short History of the War; Nicolay and Hay's 
Abraham Lincoln ; florse's Abraham Lincoln ; Brooks's Abraham Lincoln ; 
Pratt's Lincoln in Story; Tarbell's Abraham Lincoln ; Grant's Personal Mem- 
oirs; Adams's Charles Francis Adams; Lothrop's William H.Seward; Davles's 
General Sheridan; Mahan's Admiral Farragut ; Lee's General Lee; Sher- 
man's Memoirs; Sheridan's Memoirs; Home's General Thomas; McClel- 
lan's Own Story; Cooke's Robert E. Lee; Cooke's "Stonewall" Jackson; 
Hughes's Joseph E. Johnston ; Church's Ericsson ; Qoss's Recollections of a 
Private; Trumbull's War Memories of an Army Chaplain; Gordon's Rem- 
iniscences of the Civil War; Hart's Romance of the Civil War; Alcott's Hos- 
pital Sketches ; Livermore's My Story of the War. 

FICTION: Page's In Ole Virginia; Page's Among the Camps; Page's 
Two Little Confederates ; Henty's With Lee in Virginia; Trowbridge's Cud- 
joe's Cave; Trowbridge's Three Scouts; Trowbridge's Drummer Boy ; But- 
terworth's In the Boyhood of Lincoln; Goss's Tom Clifton; Stoddard's Bat- 
tle of New York; Churchill's The Crisis. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 299 

POETRY: Holmes's View of the Loyal North; Holmes's Our Country; 
Whittier's Barbara Frietchie; Harte's John Burns of Gettysburg; Read's 
Sheridan's Ride; Work's Marching through Georgia; Tenting on the Old Camp 
Ground; Stoddard's Burial of Lincoln ; Longfellow's Decoration Day. 



THE WAR BEGINS 

307. Slavery Splits the Democratic Party (i860). — By 
i860 the question of slavery caused a split in the Demo- 
cratic Party. The Northern Democrats believed in the 
principle oi popular sovereignty, which allowed the people in 
the territories to decide for themselves whether or not they 
would have slaves. The Southern Democrats declared that 
the Constitution imposed upon Congress the duty of pro- 
tecting slavery in the territories, and they supported their 
view by the Dred Scott Decision. The Republican Party 
declared that the Constitution imposed upon slavery in the 
Congress the duty oi forbidding slavery in the territories. 
territories and repudiated the Dred Scott Decision. This 
party did not at that time favor the abolition of slavery. 
The great political issue, therefore, in the campaign of i860 
was the extension of slavery into the territories. The 
Northern Democrats nominated for President Stephen A. 
Douglas; the Southern Democrats, John C. Breckin- 
ridge ; and the Republicans, Abraham Lincoln. As the 
Democratic vote was divided the Republicans elected their 
candidate. 

308. Abraham Lincoln.' — The new President was one ol 
the most remarkable men that the country has produced. 
While Lincoln was still young, his parents, who were ol 
very humble origin, moved to Indiana. His home sur- 
roundings were such as a log hut in the backwoods could 

' Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865), was 
born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809, and died at the hands of an 
assassin in 1865. His father, who could neither read nor write, removed to In- 
diana when his son was only seven years of age, and later to Illinois. After serving 
as captain in the war with the Black Hawk Indians Lincoln was elected as a mem- 
ber of the Illinois State Legislature. In 1837 he began to practise law and soon 
became distinguished for his ability as a lawyer. In 1847-1849 he served as Rep- 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



furnish, and his advantages were few. He had less than a 
year's training in the rude schools of the region ; yet de- 
spite his rough exterior he developed into a youth of manly 
character. He became known as " Honest Abe." His 
clear head and good judgment caused him to be selected 
as a judge to settle disputes among his friends and neigh- 
bors. He was six feet four inches in height and a giant in 
strength. 

His opportunities for reading were so limited that it was 
hard work for him to make much headway with even the 

few books he could get. But he 
was patient and persevering in the 
Patient and per- facc of difficulties, and 
severing. gradually won a great 

reputation as a debater and public 
speaker. He had a keen sense of 
humor, was a good story-teller, and 
possessed a rare power in wiuning 
men over to his views. His uiag- 
netic influence, joined to his clear 
judgment and sincerity of purpose, 
thus made him a great leader in the 
affairs of the nation. 

309. The Southern Point of 
View. — Soon after Lincoln's elec- 
tior. South Carolina, the leader in 
the attempt to dissolve the Union, passed the Ordinance of 
Secession (December 20, i860). The Southern leaders did 
not closely discriminate between Abolitionists like William 
Lloyd Garrison and John Brown, and Republicans like 
Seward and Lincoln. Therefore, when the Republican 
candidate was elected, these leaders naturally thought that 

resentative in Congress. He first attracted special attention, however, by his able 
speech in reply to Stephen A. Douglas on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. 
This speech and his great reputation led to his nomination by the Republicans in 
1858 for the United States senatorship. Douglas was nominated by the Demo- 
crats. The contest was a memorable one. Although Douglas secured the election, 
Lincoln's brilliant debating with Douglas led to his nomination for the Presidency 
in i860. 




ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



301 



slavery would thrive better out of the Union than in it. 
Like Calhoun, Southern leaders in general were more at- 
tached to their States than to the Union. The state first 
And, since they believed that the separate '" ^^^ south. 
States were possessed of sovereign power, they also be- 
lieved that any State could withdraw, or secede, from the 
Union whenever it pleased. 

310. The Northern Point of View.— The North beheved, 
as Webster had declared (1830), that the Constitution was 




Lincoln's birthplace. 



not a compact between sovereign States but the fundamental 
law of the nation; that the Union was "now and forever, one 
and inseparable." With the South the State The union first 
was first and the Union second: with the in the North. 
North the Union stood first, and no State had a right to 
secede from the Union against the consent of the other 
States. According to the latter view, peaceable secession, as 
Webster said (1S50), was impossible. When, therefore. 
South Carohna passed the Ordinance of Secession, she gave 
the signal for a terrible struggle in which the life of the 
nation was threatened. 

311. The Principal Steps toward the Civil War.— The 
following were the principal steps in the disagreement^ 

^ Of course the two sections had long disagreed on the tariff question also. But 
rfe have already seen how slavery led to this disagreement. 



302 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

resulting in Civil War between the North and the South, By 
reason of an unfavorable soil and climate, slavery did not pay 
in the North, while it seemed to pay in the South. As the 
moral sentiment against slavery increased in the North, 
steps toward the the South saw that the interests of the slave- 
civii War. holder demanded an extension of slavery into 

new States. The North objected. This disagreement ar- 
rayed the sections against each other. 

Finally the Southern slave-holders declared that, since 
the States were nations with sovereign power, they had a 
perfect right to secede from the Union and erect a Con- 
federacy. When eleven of the fifteen slave States tried to 
break up the Union by secession, the free States were deter- 
mined to preserve the Union, and the result was the Civil 
War. Before taking up the study of the war, let us notice 
a few of the conditions under which it was carried on. 

312. Secession of the Remaining Cotton States and 
Organization of the Confederacy. — Within sLx weeks after 
the secession of South CaroUna, the six other cotton States, 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
Texas, had likewise seceded. The cotton States naturally 
seceded first, because there slave labcr was more profitable 
than in other parts of the South. On February 4, 1S61, 
delegates from all these^ States except Texas met at IMont- 
gomery, Alabama, and proceeded to the organization of the 
"Confederate States of America."- Jefferson Davis,^ of 

' The South was disappointed because some cf the slave States did not secede 
and because the Northern people were so united. The Secessionists did not expect 
the cause to meet with such firm opposition throughout the North. 

* The Confederate capital was removed from IMontgomery, Alabama, to Rich- 
mond, Virginia, on May 20, 1861. 

'Jeflcrson Davis was born in Kentucky in 1808, and died in 1889. After 
graduating from West Point (1828) he served in the army for some years and then 
became a cotton-planter in IMississippi. He took his scat in Congress in 1845, but 
again entered the army on the outbreak of the Mexican War. lie distinguished 
himself for bravery in this war, receiving a severe wound at the battle of Bucna 
Vista. He represented his State (Mississippi) in the United States Senate in 
1847-51, and was Secretary of War under President Pierce. He again entered the 
Senate in 1S57 and there remained until the beginning of the Civil War, when he 
resigned. He was elected President of the Southern Confederacy and remained in 
that oflBce until the end of the war. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



303 



Mississippi, was elected President, and Alexander H, Ste- 
phens,^ of Georgia, Vice-President. 

313. Advantages of the North. — In this great struggle 
the North and the South were more evenly matched than 
is sometimes supposed. The North had many advantages: 
(i) She had a population of twenty-three millions, while the 
seceding States had but nine iiiillions, three and a half mil- 
lions of whom were slaves. (2) She had many factories, by 
means of which the necessary mili- 
tary supplies could be furnished to 
her armies. The South had to get 
her supplies from abroad.^ (3) The 
North had a navy that gave her 
command of the sea, while the South, 
having put nearly all her energies 
into the cultivation of rice, cotton, 
sugar, and tobacco, had few sailors 
and no navy. Her extensive sea- 
coast and large rivers were therefore 
open to attack from Northern vessels. 
(4) The North had also a greater 
number of able business men and far 
more wealth than the South. The 
industrial system of the North had developed men of the 
highest business ability. 

314. Advantages of the South. — The South had the fol- 
lowing advantages: (i) Fighting on the defensive, on her 

'Alexander H. Stephens was born near Crawfordsville, Georgia, in 1812, and 
died in 1883. After graduating from the State University at the head of his class, 
he studied law and soon began his long political career by securing an election to 
the State Legislature. As a representative in Congress for sixteen years, 1843-59, 
he proved himself to be a statesman of conspicuous ability. In i860 he vigorously 
opposed secession, but vv^hen Georgia seceded "he went with his State." He was 
elected Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy and continued in that position 
throughout the Civil War. The year before his death he was elected governor of 
Georgia. He was a man of very slight, frail body, and toward the end of his life 
had to be wheeled about in a chair. 

*Not until the war was half over did the Confederates succeed in building and 
equipping the factories necessary for supplying their troops with guns and ammuni- 

tjoo. 

2S 




JEFFERSON DAVIS. 



304 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

own soil, she needed fewer soldiers. Generally she could 
select her own positions behind breastworks and could 
fight near her base of supplies. On the other hand, many 
Northern troops were required to garrison strategic points 
that had been capti red in the South. Before the war had 
closed a large proportion of the Union soldiers were guard- 
ing conquered territory. (2) At the beginning of the war 
the South had most of the experienced generals. (3) More- 
over, the Southern people, almost exclusively devoted to 
the out-door life of agricultural pursuits, were well pre- 
pared to endure the severe physical strain demanded of a 
soldier in time of war. (4) The Southern troops, accus- 
tomed to the woods of the South, had a great advantage 
also in tha«t considerable part of the fighting took place 
in the woods and wild regions. 

315. The South Seizes National Property; the Star of 
the West. — Throughout the area of secession the South at 
once began to seize custom-houses, forts, arsenals, and all 
other property belonging to the United States. Some of 
President Buchanan's Cabinet were Southern men in full 
sympathy with the secession movement, and they took ac- 
tive measures to aid the South by sending arms and military 
supplies to Southern forts. 

Buchanan did not believe in the right of secession, 
but neither did he believe that the National government 
Buchanan's inde- had a right to usc cocrciou. As he was in 
di»Mte''/ipon sympathy with the Southerners on the slav- 
the Union. ery qucstiou, he was unwilling to oppose them 

by preventing secession. The seceding States were there- 
fore allowed to do much in preparation for war before Lin- 
coln came into office. If the iron-willed Andrew Jackson 
had been President, in place of Buchanan, secession would 
probably have been put down before gaining much head- 
way. Buchanan, with unfortunate indecision, let things 
drift, and by this let-alone policy brought disaster upon 
the Union. 

Before Lincoln's inauguration the South was ready for 
a terrible struggle. Earl}' in January (1861) President Bu- 





















110 


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Vi^_^ 1(0 i 




MAP OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

SHOWING 

rraSTA\D SECOND SECESSION AKE_, 

and tb" Fuur Slave Statps that did not sec 

C:3 Union Free Btatei. CJUnlon Slave holding 
I — I States fleoeded before April 15, 1861, 
l~~l Ststee aeccdod »fi«r April 16, 1861. 
r-i TerrltorlcB controlled bjr the Federal Qovemment 
Mountain Area of the South outlined thus;^ ^k_^ 

I* U) 196 300 300 400 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 305 

chanan sent the merchant steamer Star of the West with men 
and supplies for Major Anderson of the United States army, 
who had command at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, 
but the South Carolina army in Charleston fired upon the 
steamer and prevented her reaching' the fort. 

316. Lincoln's Inaugural Address. — The time for de- 
cisive action had at last come. In the midst of intense ex- 
citement all over the Union Lincoln started from his home 
in Illinois for Washington. Before reaching Baltimore he 
was informed that a plan had been laid to assassinate him 
as he passed through that city. He therefore changed his 
plans and went to Washington at night on a special train. 
In his inaugural address (March 4, 1861) he said he had no 
intention of interfering with slavery, because he thought 
the Constitution had given him no such authority. But he 
declared that he would do everything in his power to pre- 
serve, protect, and defend the Union. President Lincoln's 
address was free from bitterness, but left no doubt of the 
firmness of his purpose to uphold the Constitution. 

317. The Confederates Capture Fort Sumter, — Neither 
the North nor the South wished to strike the first blow, but 
the South was eager to get possession of Fort Sumter. 
Major Anderson was in command here with a small force of 
about eighty fighting men. The Confederates had an op- 
posing army of between 5,000 and 6,000 men. Moreover, 
Major Anderson had only a small supply of provisions on 
hand. About one month after the inauguration of Lincoln 
the latter decided to send supplies to the garrison. 

Two days after this decision reached South Carolina 
General Beauregard, who commanded the Confederate 
troops in Charleston, demanded the surrender of the fort. 
When Major Anderson refused, Beauregard opened fire at 
4.30 on the morning of April 12, 1861. For thirty-four hours 
the brave garrison, with little to eat, held out jhe brave uttie 
against the overwhelming forces of the enemy, garrison makes a 
On the morning of the second day the Con- ^*"*"''"'° *'"*""^*- 
federates, firing hot shot, set on fire the barracks and other 
wood-work in the fort. The flames were dangerously near 



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the powder magazine, and the smoke almost suffocated the 
soldiers. Falling flat upon the ground, they covered their 
faces with wet cloths for protection, but would not give 
up. At last, seeing that there was no hope of supplies 
reaching the garrison, JNIajor Anderson was compelled to 
surrender. On Sunday afternoon, the 14th, the Union sol- 
diers saluted the Stars and Stripes with fifty guns, and, 
with 'drums beating " Yankee Doodle," marched out of the 







aunJa 






'^^^S^S^.^^m 



INTEKIOE OF FORT SUMTER AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT IN I863. 




fort to embark for New York. In this bombardment no 
one was killed on either side. 

The North was ablaze with indignation at the attack on 
Fort Sumter. Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 
Results of the 75-000 voluntccrs (April 15), and declared 
attack on Fort Southern ports to be in a state of blockade 
Sumter. (April 19). Troops flocked to Washington. 

The North thrilled with martial enthusiasm. The South 
was surprised. The secessionists had looked for compro- 
mise, but war had begun. In the North and in the South 
alike armies were promptly organized. 

318. Secession of Four More States. — When Virginia, 
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas were called upon 
to furnish their quota of troops to the National army, they 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 30? 

refused. Although these States had not wished to secede, 
they believed in the right of secession, and therefore when it 
became certain that the government meant to coerce their 
sister States to remain in the Union, they voted to secede. 
The secession area was thus extended over eleven States.^ 

319. Battle of Bull Run. — When, early in July, the 
Northern army had driven the Confederate forces out of 
West Virginia, the people in the North became impatient 
for an advance upon Richmond. General McDowell was 
in command, in Washington, of a Union army (of about 
30,000 men). General Patterson (with about 18,000) was 
in the Shenandoah Valley watching General The opposing 
Joseph E. Johnston-^ (with 9,000), and the Con- forces, 
federate army, commanded by General Beauregard, witfl 
22,000, was posted at Manassas Junction, about thirty-five 
miles from Washington, on a little stream called Bull Run. 
This position was selected by the Confederates because it 
could be easily reached by rail with men and supplies, and 
because an advance upon Washington from this point would 
be easy. 

Here, on July 21, McDowell made an attack upon the 
Confederates, in which he seemed at first to be winning a 

' The remaining slave States, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, did 
not secede. The mountainous parts of western Virginia, not being adapted to the 
cultivation of rice, cotton, sugar, or tobacco, had no large plantations, and there was 
not a large ownership of slaves in that part of the State. The people, therefore, did 
not sympathize with secession, and early in 1861 withdrew from Virginia and organ- 
ized a separate State government under the name of West Virginia. In June, 1863, 
West Virginia was admitted to the Union. The attitude of this State toward the war 
is an interesting illustration of the intimate connection between soil and climate 
and slavery, and between slavery and secession. In the mountainous regions still 
farther south many of the people were loyal to the Union. It is estimated that 
100,000 of these mountain whites fought in the Northern armies. 

' Joseph E. Johnston was born in I.ongwood, Virginia, in 1807, and died in 
1891. He was graduated from West Point in the same class with Robert E. Lee, 
who was ever after his warm, personal friend. Like Lee, he did not favor seces- 
sion, but "went with his State" when it seceded. Next to Lee he was probably the 
ablest Confederate general. After his success at the battle of Bull Run he fell into 
a serious disagreement with Jefferson Davis, the effect of which was to injure the 
Southern cause. Johnston's defensive campaign in Georgia in 1864, when Sher- 
man was advancing upon Atlanta, showed military ability of a high order. 



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victory by forcing back a part of the Confederates a dis- 
tance of a mile and a half. At the critical moment, how- 
The Northern cvcr, the Confederates were reinforced by 
army, at first f resli trooDS from the Shenandoah, where John. 

successful, re- i i i i n • i i • 

treats in a panic, ston had cludcd Pattcrson with his entire 
army, most of which had joined Beaurej^-ard on July 20th. 
The Federal army fled in a panic toward Washington, but 




LONG BRIDGE ACROSS THE POTOMAC AT WASHINGTON, D. C. 

the Southern army, by reason of its crippled condition, 
made no attempt at pursuit. 

320. Results of the Battle of Bull Run. — This battle 
probably benefited the North more than it did the South. 
The Confederates seemed to think the war was over and 
began to seek their homes. But the defeat caused the 
North to appreciate the need of putting forth all her ener- 
gies in preparation for the great struggle which, it was now 
evident, could not be avoided. General McClellan, who 
had been very successful in driving the Confederates out of 
West Virginia, was called from his victories there to or- 
ganize and drill the army. During the autumn and winter 
the warring forces were busy fortifying their respective 



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309 



capitals, Washington and Richmond, and gathering all pos. 
sible strength for the campaigns of 1862. 

321. The Trent Affair. — To secure aid for the South- 
ern cause Mason and Slidell had been selected by the Con- 
federate government as commissioners to England and 
France. In November, 1861, they escaped the blockade at 
Charleston and took passage at Havana on the British mail 
steamer Trent. Captain Wilkes, of the United States war- 
vessel San Jacinto, stopped the 

Trent not far from the Bahama 
Islands, took off Mason and Slidell, 
and confined them in Fort Warren, 
in Boston Harbor. 

322. England Resents the Cap- 
ture of Mason and Slidell. — For 
this act Captain Wilkes was greatly 
applauded by Northern people, but 
England was highly indignant and 
at once began to make preparations 
for war. She sent troops and war- 
vessels to Canada and was unnec- 
essarily harsh in her demands that 
the prisoners be given up. 

President Lincoln, knowing that the War of 181 2 was 
brought about mainly because England claimed the right 
to stop and search neutral American vessels at sea, wisely 
refused to approve the course taken by Captain Wilkes. 
Accordingly he at once gave up the prisoners president Lincoln 
to England, with the statement that Captain gives up Mason 
Wilkes had acted without any authority from «"'• s''***^"* 
the United States Government. But the North could not 
help thinking that England was not only insolent in her de- 
mands, but over-hasty in her preparations to make war upon 
us. Ill-feeling between the two countries was thus aroused 
and was a source of more or less irritation throughout the 
war. 




GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN. 



3IO HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



TO THE PUPIL 

t. You are no'w ready to study the Civil War. Only a few of the great 
battles are described in this history, but these v?ill enable you to 
understand the character of the terrible conflict. You do not need 
to know the details of military movements, but you do need to know 
what kind of men your country sent to the camp and battle field. 
Were they brave men ? Were they manly, vigorous, and true ? 
Find out as you study the war, 

2. How did slavery split the Democratic Party ? What did the Repub- 

licans think of slavery ? Learn all you can about the life and char- 
acter of Abraham Lincoln. 

3. What was the Southern pcint of view of the Constitution ? The 

Northern point of view ? Recall the liberal construction and the 
strict construction theoricf^ of the Constitution in the time of Ham- 
ilton and Jefferson. Explain how slavery was the real cause of the 
war. 

4. Why were the cotton States the first to secede ? Name the advan- 

tages of the North and of the South in the war. 

5. What was President Buchanan's attitude toward the secession move- 

ment ? Contrast this attitude w^ith that of Andrew Jackson toward 
nullification. What was the result of Buchanan's attitude ? 

6. Why did the Confederates attack Fort Sumter? Imagine yourself 

to have been in the fort with the brave little garrison and describe 
your experience there. What were the results of the attack on 
Fort Sumter ? 

7. Why did Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas secede ? 

Account for the refusal of the people in the western part of Virginia 
to join their State in the secession movement. 

8. Locate on your map the position of the opposing forccb just before the 

Battle of Bull Run. What were the results of this battle? 

9. What was the *' Trent affair " ? Do you think President Lincoln 

acted wisely in giving up Mason and Slidell ? Give reasons for 
your answer. 
to. By reading the opening chapter of Ropes's " Story of the Civil War " 
you will get a clear idea of the difference between the Northern and 
the Southern point of view of the Union. 



THE NATION IN PERIL 

323. Union Plan of the "War. — Not until the opening 
of 1862 was a plan of operations matured by the North. 
This plan, at the outset, was threefold: (i) To blockade 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 311 

Southern ports; (2) to open the Mississippi; (3) to capture 
Richmond. The successful carrying out of this plan led 
also to Sherman's campaign in Georgia in 1S64. 

324. England and King Cotton. — At the outbreak of 
the war people at tlie North supposed they had only the 
South to deal with. They soon found, however, that they 
had to contend with an insidious influence from abroad. 
When Jefferson Davis said, " Cotton is king,"^ he doubtless 
thought that England's money and friendship could be se- 
cured by her need of cotton. In i860 the cotton exports, 
most of which went to English factories, amounted to more 
than $202,000,000. Many English manufacturers and mer- 
chants and 4,000,000 English working people were depend- 
ent upon Southern cotton for their means of support. The 
Southern leaders naturall}^ thought that these English 
manufacturers and working people would never submit to 
any action on the part of the North which would cripple 
their industries. It was therefore expected by the Con- 
federates that the need of cotton in England would win for 
them the sympathy of the English people. 

325. The Blockade. — But from the beginning of the' 
struggle the North was determined to blockade the South 
so effectually that the latter could neither send cotton to 
England nor receive in return the much-needed supplies 
for her soldiers and homes. In the end, as the world 
knows, the South was forced to give up the struggle be- 
cause of a lack of the very supplies which cotton alone 
could procure ; in other words, the Confederacy was 
starved into submission by the blockade. Although, as 
stated above, the cotton exports in i860 had amounted to 
$202,000,000, in 1861 the exports fell in value to $42,000,000, 
and in 1862 to $4,000,000. In the remaining years of the 
war the blockade was so effectual that the value of the cot- 
ton exports wris not worth consideration. 

326. The Merrimac and the Monitor. — It was to break 
the blockade that the Merrimac was set afloat. When the 

' At the beginning of the war the cotton States in the South furnished nearly 
two thirds of all the cotton used in the world. 
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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Norfolk navy-yard was abandoned by the United States 
Government at the outbreak of the war, among the ships 
The Confederates burned and suiik was the frigate Merriinac. 
rfhVMerrr'"'* This had been one of the largest and finest 
mac. ships in the navy. The Confederates raised 

her and converted her into an iron-clad. Up to this time 
very few iron-clad frigates had been built, and none had 
been tested in war. The Confederate naval officers 




DKCK OF THE MONITOR. 



thought, however, that one ii"on-clad would be much more 
effective in reducing the Union navy and raising the 
blockade than a whole fleet of wooden craft to match those 
generally in use. The history of the naval duel between 
the Merriniac and the Monitor shows how wisely the Con- 
federates planned. The hull of the Merriinac was razed to 
the water's level. The vessel was rebuilt with s'ioping 
sides, plated with iron four inches thick, and was furnished 
with a cast-iron beak and a formidable battery. The Merri- 
mac had been many months in construction, and when, 
about noon of March 8, 1862, she steamed into Hampton 
Roads, where the United States had a fleet of five powerful 
war-vessels, she was not wholly unexpected. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 313 

In advancing to meet her, three of the blockading- squad- 
ron ran aground on account of low water. But the Cori'^ 
gress and the Cumberland, supported by the batteries on the 
shore, made ready for the attack. They poured broad- 
side after broadside into the Mcrriniac 2iS she TheMerrimac 
approached. The balls rebounded from her tSock^d^r 
iron sides with no effect. The Mcrrhnac Bquadron. 
steered straight for the Cumberhmd, discharging a broad- 
side into the Congress in passing. Continuing her fire she 
rammed her iron beak into the Cumberland' s side, making a 
srreat hole, into which the water rushed. The crew of the 
Cumberland continued firing until \\\&y reached the water's 
edge, and when they went down their colors were still fly-, 
ing. The Merrimac then turned to the Congress, poured hot 
shot into her, set her afire, and forced her to surrender. At 
nightfall the Merrimac steamed back to her landing, expect- 
ing to complete her work of destruction the following day 

Great was the joy in the South that night, and great 
was the consternation in the North. Statesmen were grave, 
the people terrified. The blockade was broken consternation id 
at Norfolk. Soon it might be broken at other the North. 
ports, and Northern commerce might be ruined by the 
ravages of this invulnerable sea-monster. 

But in history, as in fiction, it is the unexpected that of- 
ten happens. That night a strange-looking craft came into 
the harbor. It was Ericsson's Monitor, which had been 
completed in New York two days before. The ^^^ Monitor 
Monitor was an experiment, and her construe- arrives just in 
tion had been pushed with desperate energ}^ *'™*' 
that she might be ready as soon as the Merrimac. She 
was built with an iron-plated deck almost level with the 
water, and had a revolving iron turret with two powerful 
guns. The purpose of this peculiar construction was to 
present as little resisting surface as possible to the enemy's 
guns. The Confederates well described her appearance 
when they said she looked like a Yankee cheese-box on a 
raft. She had arrived just in tmie. 

The following- morning- the Merrimac steamed out of 



314 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Norfolk confident of a victory over the other three frigates. 
She steered for the Minnesota, by the side of which the 
Monitor was lying-, and soon found that she had a new ad- 
versary to deal with. The Monitor steered straight for the 
Merrimac, and one of the strangest naval battles ever fought 
^t. * A .-... beiran. The duel continued over three hours. 

The sturdy little t> 

Monitor saves At poiuts the Mcrrimacs armor was crushed 
the Union. y^^^^ ^^^^ picrccd. Captain Worden of the 

Monitor received a wound which delayed the action for a 
little, and the Merrimac withdrew. Neither side cared to 
continue the struggle. The Merrimac had met her match 
and made no further attempt to break the blockade. The 
sturdy little Monitor had saved the Union. 

This fight revolutionized naval warfare, for it showed 
that the days of wooden war-vessels were at an end. 
Against such iron-clads as the Monitor and the Merrimac 
wooden vessels of the finest type were useless.* 

327. The Importance of the Mississippi. — In order to 
cut off the South from communication with the rest of the 
Why the North world, it was ucccssary not only to maintain 
desired to get ^|^g blockadc but to gain possession of the 

control of the ^ ^ r t» t • 

Mississippi. Mississippi River. For by way of Mexico 

trade was kept up with European countries to some extent. 
Other advantages would be secured to the North by getting 
control of this river: (i) Such control would cut the Con- 
federacy in two, making Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana of 
little use to the Southern cause; (2) it would prevent the 
South from getting supplies of any sort from the region 
west of the Mississippi ; (3) it would enable the North to 
use her navy to great advantage in concentrating troops in 
the rear of the Confederacy and in getting supplies to her 
armies in that region ; (4) it would open the Mississippi to 
the trade of the West and the Northwest. 

' Neither of these famous iron-clads ever again took part in a battle. When, two 
months later, McClellan forced the Confederates to evacuate Norfolk, they destroyed 
the Merrimac, which drew so much water that she could not steam up the James 
River to Richmond. In December of the same year the Monitor went down, with 
most of her crew, in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 315 

328. Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson. — It was 

one thing to cut off the South from the rest of the world ; it 
was quite another to get possession of her vast territory. 
But this last was necessary also. Early in the war the Con- 
federates had been driven from West Virginia and from 
Missouri. In the winter and spring of 1862 the Federal 
generals began a series of movements whose twofold pur- 
pose was to open the Mississippi to the North and gain 
possession of Tennessee. 

To defend Tennessee, the Confederates had built Fort 
Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cum- 
berland. .Their line of defence, as will be seen The confederate 
by consulting the map, extended from Colum- iine of defence, 
bus through Forts Henry and Donelson, Bowling Green, 
and Mill Springs, to Cumberland Gap. To break this line 
of defence, it was necessary for the North to capture Forts 
Henry and Donelson. By capturing the two forts the two 
important rivers would be under the control of Northern 
vessels, and Nashville would have to be abandoned by the 
Confederates. Columbus, when cut off from support, would 
also have to be given up without a struggle. 

With all these things in view. General Grant, with the 
aid of Commodore Foote, moved upon the two forts. Com- 
modore Foote soon captured Fort Henry (February 6); and 
General Grant,^ after a hard fight, received the surrender 
of Fort Donelson with nearly 15,000 prisoners (February 
16). By this important victory the first Southern line of 
defence in the West was thus broken, and Columbus and 
Nashville fell into the hands of the Federals. 

329. The Battle of Pittsburg Landing (or Shiloh). — 
The Confederates now fell back upon another line of de- 
fence, extending from Memphis, through Cor- General Orant at 
inth, an important railroad centre, to Chatta- P'ttsburg Landing 
nooga. Under General Albert Sidney John- Bueii. 

ston, the Confederate army, 40,000 strong, took position at 

• When General Buckner sent to Grant for terms of surrender the following an- 
swer was sent: " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be 
accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Corinth. Gcncial Grant, with 33,000 men, advanced as fa» 
as Pittsburg' Landing on the Tennessee River, about twenty- 
four miles from Corinth. Here he waited for Buell, who 
was hastening from Nashville to join him wath an army of 
27,000 men. On Buell's arrival the Federal army was to 
attack Johnston's forces at Corinth. 

Before Buell could reach Pittsburg Landing, however^ 
Johnston attacked Grant early on Sunday morning, April 6t 




PARAPET AT FOKTRKSS MONROE. 



It was a terrible day. By nightfall the Confederates had 
driven Grant's troops back a mile and a half toward the 
Grant wins a rivcr. But bcforc morning Buell's fresh troops 

victory. hQ(j come up, and they assisted Grant in driv- 

ing the Confederates from the field. In this battle about 
20,000 men were killed or wounded. Among the killed was 
General Albert Sidney Johnston, whose death was a serious 
loss to the South. 

330. Capture of New Orleans. — New Orleans was im- 
portant to the South because it controlled the lower Missis- 
sippi. Thirty miles from the mouth of the river were two 
forts nearly opposite each other. Between them were 
Confederate Stretched across the river immense chains 

defences. fastened to the hulks of old vessels. A little 

farther up the river was a strong fleet, which included a 
formidable iron-clad ram like the J\Icrrii)iac and a floating 
battery covered with railroad iron. There were also fire- 
rafts ready to be turned loose upon tlic Federal vessels. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 31: 

Commodore Farragut, who was in command of a fleet of 
nearly fifty wooden vessels that was to attack Farragut runs bv 
these forts, advanced up the river to New Or- the forts, 
leans. There General Butler, with an army of 15,000 men, 



-5^^**^^*> ^^»iwV^ 



(^c^&.«^«ite «*^;;*-»/v*-* >*'5»-><*^. 

^^^^.^^ 

grant's "unconditional surrender" letter. 

^^ permission of General James Grant Wihon. 

was to aid in getting possession of the city. After bom- 
barding the forts for six days without making much im- 
pression, Farragut determined to run by them at night. It 
was a desperate undertaking, but it succeeded, and easily 

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SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 319 

brought New Orleans into the possession of the Union 
forces (April 25). With the aid of the river gunboats the 
Federals had, before the close of 1862, opened the river as 
far down as Vicksburg. This city and Port Hudson alone 
remained in possession of the Confederac}'. 

331. The Peninsular Campaign (1862). — These brilliant 
victories were in marked contrast with the failure of the 
army under General McClellan. As we have Mccieiian creates 
already seen, he was placed in command of a splendid army, 
the Army of the Potomac, which was intended for the de- 
fence of Washington and the capture of Richmond. Be- 
fore the opening of the spring campaign in 1862, he had, 
by thorough organization and drill, created a splendid 
army. 

His original plan was to approach Richmond by the 
James River. Lincoln opposed this because he thought 
that Washington would thus be exposed to attack. He 
therefore urged the wisdom of approaching Richmond over- 
land from the north, in order to keep the Federal army 
between the Confederates and Washington. Mccieiian objects 
McClellan objected because there were so to Lincoln's plan, 
many rivers to be crossed, every one of which could, for 
defensive purposes, be made a Confederate stronghold. 
The swampy forests of this region were also in the same 
way of great value to the South. It is no exaggeration to 
say that these natural advantages were worth many thou- 
sand troops to the Confederate army, and it is unfair to 
McClellan and Grant not to take them into account 
McClellan adopted neither Lincoln's plan nor his own, but 
compromised by approaching Richmond by way of the 
peninsula between the James and the York Rivers, making 
his base of supplies on the latter. 

McDowell was stationed near Fredericksburg, between 
the main Confederate army and Washington. In this posi- 
tion he could protect Washington or unite McDoweii 
with McClellan, as occasion required. To stationed at 
prevent an attack upon the capital by way of Predericksburg. 
the Shenandoah, well known during the war as the " back 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



321 



door to Washington," Union forces were stationed there 
under Banks and Fremont, 

332. McClellan Advances up the Peninsula. — Starting 
at Fortress Monroe on April 4, 1862, McClellan, with 120,- 
000 troops, advanced along the York River Mccieiian stop, 
to Yorktown. Here, instead of storming the for a month at 
town, he laid siege to it. When he was ready Yorktown. 
for an assault, the Confederates, having held him in check 
for a month, withdrew, and thus gained time to strengthen 



:i m^^^?^^---^'^''^- 







A MORTAR BATTERY IN FRONT OF YORKTOWN. 

their defences about Richmond. McClellan hurried aftei 
them and fought an indecisive battle at Williamsburg, 
from which the Confederates retired toward their capital. 
McClellan then advanced slowly, and by the end of May 
found himself within ten miles of Richmond By that time 
the Confederates defending Richmond numbered 70,00c. 

Dividing his army, McClellan encamped upou f>oth sides 
of the Chickahominy. He made this arrangement so as to 
establish easy connection between his north wing and Mc- 
Dowell, who (with 45,000 men) was near Fredericksburg with 



322 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

orders to be in readiness to unite with McClellan. Heavy 
rains caused the Chickahominy to swell, thus separating 
the two wings. General Johnston took advantage of the 
Battle of situation to attack the division south of the 

Fair Oaks. rivcr at Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), and threat- 

ened to overwhelm it, but McClellan got reinforcements 
across and stayed the retreat. 

333. '* Stonewall " Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; 
McClellan Changes his Base of Supplies. — In order to 
prevent McDowell from joining McClellan, General Rob- 
ert E. Lee, who was now in command of the Confederates,* 
sent " Stonewall " Jackson down the Shenandoah Valley to 
threaten Washington. Jackson defeated Banks and Fre- 
mont, and so thoroughly alarmed Lincoln that the latter 
ordered McDowell to return to the defence of Washington. 
After playing havoc with the Union forces in the Shenan- 
doah Jackson hastil}' joined Lee. 

Now that McDowell was prevented from joining the at- 
tack upon Richmond, McClellan changed his base of sup- 
plies to the James River. During the week that he was 
The " Seven Days' transferring the army to the new base of sup- 
Battles." plies the terrible " Seven Days' Battles," in 

which McClellan lost 15,000 men, were fought. At Malvern 
Hill, the field of the last of these engagements, Lee repeat- 

• Lee had succeeded General Joseph E. Johnston, who was wounded in the bat- 
tle of Fair Oaks (May 31). 

Robert E. Lee, son of Henry Lee, or "Light-Horse Harry," of Revolutionary 
fame, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1807, and died in 1870. He 
was graduated from West Point in 1829, ranking second in a class of forty-six. He 
distinguished himself for bravery in the Mexican War and rose to the rank of colonel. 
After Virginia seceded in 1861 Lee decided "to go with his State." He therefore 
resigned his commission in the army of the United States, and a little later took 
command of the Virginia State troops. W'hen, at the battle of Seven Pines, or Fair 
Oaks (1862), General Joseph E. Johnston received a serious wound that temporarily 
unfitted him for active service, Lee was put at the head of the Confederate army. 
From that time to the end of the war he was the leading Confederate general and 
handled his troops with consummate ability. Military critics rank him and Grant 
as two of the foremost commanders of this century. Lee won the confidence of the 
Southern people, who regarded him with unbounded admiration and affection. At 
the close of the war he became president of what is now Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, where he spent the remaining years of his life. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



323 



edly charged but was driven back with fearful slaughter. 
The Army of the Potomac fought here with magnificent 
heroism. Had McClcllan taken immediate advantage of 
this victory he might, by a vigorous attack, have captured 
Richmond. As a whole, the Peninsular Campaign failed 
and caused bitter disappointment in the North. 

334. Lee's First Invasion of the North (1862). — Mc- 
Clellan made no further attempt upon Richmond. In the 




A FEDERAL BATTERY IN THE FIELD. 



meantime Halleck had been put in chief command of the 
Union armies. Pope was appointed to take command of 
the forces in northern Virginia and McClellan was ordered 
to join him. Before McClellan could reach Pope, however, 
Lee pushed north. He united his forces with "Stonewall" 
Jackson's, which had been sent to surprise Pope's rear. 
After defeating Pope in the second battle of second Battle of 
Bull Run he marched across the Potomac BuiiRun. 
into Maryland, where he thought he would receive large 
recruits. In this he was disappointed. The great major- 
ity of the Maryland people were loyal to the Union, and 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



plainly showed this in their attitude toward the invasion. 
When Lee's men marched into the State singing " My 
Maryland people Maryland" there was not a word of welcome 
loyal to the Union, from the pcoplc. On reaching Frederick, Lee 
was surprised to find not onl}' places of business shut, but 
even the doors closed and the blinds drawn. The North, 
however, fearing an attack upon Baltimore, Washington, or 
Philadelphia, was greatly alarmed. 

335. Battle of Antietam (Sep- 
tember 17, 1862). — After Pope's de- 
feat in the second battle of Bull 
Run, McClellan, having united 
Pope's army with the Army of the 
Potomac, started in pursuit of Lee. 
On September 17, with an army of 
70,000, he attacked Lee, who, with 
about 40,000, had taken his position 
at Sharpsburg, behind Antietam 
Creek. This battle was one of the 
bloodiest of the war. Although Lee 
Lee retreats succcssfuUy defended 

Into Virginia. himsclf against the at- 
ROBERT E. LEE. tack of thc Uuiou army, he had to 

retreat into Virginia without hav- 
ing gained an3'thing by his first invasion of the North. 

Some people thought McClellan ought to have routed 
or captured Lee's army. As he did not follow the Con- 
Burnside.whosu- federates he was severely criticised for being 
uTudefTa't^dat slow and overcautious, and was superseded 
Fredericksburg, by Bumsidc. Burnsidc was as rash as Mc- 
Clellan was cautious, and later in the autumn met a crush- 
ing defeat when he attacked Lee, who was intrenched in a 
strong position at Fredericksburg. The year's operations 
had been successful for the Union cause in the West, but 
unsuccessful in the East.^ 




* One of the bloodiest battles of the war was fought at the end of this year 
at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Beginning December 31 (1862), it lasted three days, 
and resulted in the retreat of the Confederates after the most stubborn fighting. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 325 

TO THE PUPIL 

i. What w^as the Union plan of the war ? In what w^ay did Jefferson 
Davis think that the cotton trade w^ould secure the friendship of 
England for the Southern cause ? Why was it extremely important 
for the North to blockade the South ? 

2. What did the Merrimac accomplish on the first day she attacked 

the blockading squadron ? What were the results of the fight be- 
tween the Merrimac and the Monitor? 

3. Name four or five advantages to the North in securing control ot cne 

Mississippi. What purpose had the Confederates in building Forts 
Henry and Donelson ? What effect did the capture of these forts by 
the Federals have upon the Confederate line of defence ? 

4. What was the second Confederate line of defence ? What were the 

causes and results of the Battle of Shiloh ? Why was New Orleans 
of in-.portance to the South ? 

5. Are you making constant use of your map ? 

5. What was McClellanV plan of approaching Richmond ? What was 
Lincoln's ? Which d© you think was the better plan ? Give reasons 
for your answer. Fcf defensive purposes, what natural advantages 
had the Confederates in Virginia ? Why was General McDowell 
left at Fredericksburg ? 

7. Point out on the map Yorktown and Williamsburg, and show their 

connection with McCl'^llan's advance upon Richmond. What was 
the purpose of " Stonewall " Jackson's movements in the Shenandoah ? 
What was the result ? 

8. After reading as much as you can on the Peninsular Campaign, give 

reasons for McClellan's failure to capture Richmond. 

9. Why did Lee decide to invade the North ? How was he tlisap* 

pointed ? What were the results of the Battle of Antietam ? 

THE TIDE TURNS 

336. Lee's Second Invasion of the North ; Battle ot 

Gettysburg (1863). — After Burnside's repulse at Fredericks- 
burg- in December, 1862, he retired to winter Hooker's defeat 
quarters. Before the campaign of 1863 opened at chancellors- 
Hooker was put in command. In April he ^'"** 
advanced to Chancellorsville with 113,000 men, and attacked 
Lee, who had 62,000.* Lee again badly defeated the Army 

* In this battle the Confederates met with a grievous loss in the death of " Stone- 
wall " Jackson. Through a mistake he was fired upon by some of his own men. 
Thomas J. Jackson, often called " Stonewall " Jackson, was born in 1824, inHar- 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



of the Potomac. These two victories made the South jubi« 
lant, but depressed the North. 

With an exultant and confident army Lee planned to 
invade the North a second time. Early in June he marched 
down the Shenandoah, crossed the Potomac, and advanced 
into Pennsylvania, The whole country was wild with ex- 
Lee's reasons for citcment. Lee hoped to win a decisive vie 
in\idingthe tor}', Capture Baltimore or some other great 

^°"'""'^^^- Northern city, and dictate terms of peace. 
He had reason to believe that a victory on Northern soil 







FUGITIVE NEGROES FORDING THE RAPPAHANNOCK. 

would lead England and France to recognize the indepen- 
dence of the South. These two countries were only wait- 
ing until some pronounced success on the part of the South 
should afford them a 
recognition. 



reasonable excuse for gfiving such 



rison County, Vkginia (now West Virginia), and was graduated from West Point in 
1846. He took part in the Mexican War, where he was promoted for good con- 
duct. He resigned from the army in 1851, on receiving an appointment as profess- 
or in the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Virginia. He was so'eccentric 
that he became unpopular with the students, who did not regard him as a man of 
ability. Although he was opposed to secession he thoroughly believed in State 
rights, and therefore "went with his State" when it .seceded. As soon as he took 
command of troops on the battle field he showed himself to be a splendid soldier. 
By his stubborn bravery at Bull Run he won the name of " Stonewall " Jackson, 
and rose at once to the rank of major-general. He was Lee's ablest subordinate, 
and, next to Lee, was probably the most popular Confederate general. 



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327 



Lee advanced his army toward Chambersburg and en- 
camped in that vicinity. Hooker crossed the Potomac east 
of the mountains, marched north to Frederick, and sent a 
detachment west through the mountains to menace Lee's 
line of supplies. In order to draw off the Union forces 
from his rear, Lee marched eastward to . , ^ 

Lee s advance. 

threaten Washington. On the very same 
morning Meade, who had superseded Hooker, started 
north from Frederick, keeping east of the mountains to 
protect Washington. The two ar- 
mies were thus marching toward 
each other, and each jhe two armies 

was ignorant of the meet at Gettys- 

other's movements. *'"'^^' 
They unexpectedly met at Gettys- 
burg and fought a three-days' battle 
(July I, 2, and 3). 

On the first day the advance forces 
of the Union army, being greatly out- 
numbered, were driven 
through Gettysburg 
with a loss of 5,000 prisoners. The 
Confederates also suffered heavy loss 
in killed and wounded. That night the Union army took a 
strong position on Cemetery Ridge, just south of the town. 
This ridge, three miles in length, is in the shape of a fish- 
hook, with Gulp's Hill for the barb and Round Top at the 
extreme southern end. Just north of Round Top was Little 
Round Top. Lee's army took position on Seminary Ridge, 
lying about a mile west of Cemetery Ridge and nearly 
parallel with it. 

On the second day of the battle the Confederates made 
two vigorous assaults, one at Gulp's Hill on 
the right wing of the Union army and the 
other in front of Little Round Top on the left wing. Al- 
though the Confederates gained some slight advantage, 
there was no definite result on either side. 

Having failed to break the Union flanks and having re- 



The first day. 




THOMAS J. (" stonewall") 
JACKSON. 



The second day. 



528 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



ceived Pickett's fresh division, Lee spent the next morning 
in preparation for a grand assault on the Union centre, 
where he hoped to be more successful. By one o'clock in 
the afternoon he had placed in position on Seminary Ridge 
The furious can- morc than a hundred guns. The Federals 
nonade. could find rooui for only eighty on Cemetery 

Ridge. At one o'clock the Confederate guns opened fire, 
and until three the furious cannonade continued. At that 

time the fire slackened on 
Cemetery Ridge in order 
to let the guns cool in time 
for the expected attack. 
The Confederates thought 
they had silenced the Union 
batteries, and that the mo- 
ment for the South to make 
one mighty effort had come. 
General Pickett, who 
was to lead this assault at 
the head of some of the 
best Virginia troops, was 
ordered to 

Pickett's charge. . , 

advance. in 
three magnificent lines, 
with a front a mile long, 
15,000 Confederates 
charged across the field. 
The sight was thrilling, but 
soon the murderous fire from the Northern guns began to 
cut them down by hundreds. The fearful slaughter thinned 
the advancing lines. Still they pressed on. As they neared 
the first line of Northern troops. Lieutenant Cushing, a 
Union officer, although mortally wounded, pushed the only 
remaining gun of his battery to the fence and shouted to his 
commander, " Webb, I will give them one more shot." As 
he fired he fell, saying " Good-by." Pickett's men broke 
through the first line. Armistead, one of Pickett's gener- 
als, leaped over the fence, raised aloft his sword, upon the 




SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



329 



point of which he swung his hat, and shouted, " Give them 
the cold steel, boys ! " Just as he laid his hand upon a Union 
gun to capture it, he was shot down. From every side the 
Union men came rushing headlong upon the enemy. The 
struggle that followed was terrific. Men and officers were 
mingled together in one seething mass, each man fighting 
for himself. 

Pickett's men were soon repulsed, and with their lines 
broken into fragments they were driven back with disas- 
trous loss. The failure of Pickett's 
charge insured Lee's defeat at 
Gettysburg, and with Defeat of 

that defeat the tide Pickett's men. 

turned. Next day, while Grant 
was receiving the surrender of 
Vicksburg, Lee began his retreat 
toward the Potomac. After this 
failure the South was unable to 
secure a foothold in the North.^ 

337. Capture of Vicktburg; 
Opening of the Mississippi River. 
— At the close of 1862 Vicksburg 
and Port Hudson were the only 
Confederate strongholds left on 
the Mississippi. After months of 

unsuccessful effort to take Vicksburg from the north, Gen- 
eral Grant moved his army down on the west bank of the 
river and, crossing over to the east bank. Grant attacks 
made an attack from the south. Pemberton, vicksburg from 
who was in command of the Confederates in * «s<»" • 
Vicksburg, marched out to meet Grant, hoping to unite 
with Johnston, who was hastening to join him. Before the 
union of the two Confederate armies could be effected. Grant 
drove Pemberton into Vicksburg and compelled Johnston 
to retreat. Grant's bold plan was brilliantly executed. 

• In this battle Meade's army (infantry and artillery) numbered about 82,000; 
Lee's about 74,000. Each army had in addition about 11,000 cavalry. Meade 
lost in all about 23,000 ; Lee 30.000, or more than one-third of his entire force. 




GEORGE G. MEADE. 



330 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



He then laid siege to the city (May 19), cutting it ofi 
from supplies of all kinds. Flour sold for $1,000 a barrel 
(Confe'^erate money). Provisions became so scarce that 
even rats and mule-flesh were used as food. So many thou- 
sand shells were thrown into the city daily that many 
people abandoned their homes. They lived in caves which 

they dug in banks 
where the streets had 
been cut through the 

The Confederates ^'^^^^- I" 
starved into a b O U t 

surrender. ^ „ ,, ^ .^ 

seven 
weeks the Confeder- 
ates were starved into 
surrender. On July 
4, 1863, the day after 
Lee's defeat at Gettys- 
burg, Pemberton sur- 
rendered Vicksburg 
with 32,000 men. 
When, four days later, 
Port Hudson was cap- 
tured, the Mississippi 
River, to its mouth, 
was under the control 
of the North. 

338. Slavery and 
the Emancipation 
Proclamation (Janu- 
ary I, 1863). — In his 
inaugural address President Lincoln had declared that he 
would not interfere with slavery where it already existed 
because he had no constitutional right to do so. But as 
The slaves aid ^^^ ^^^^ proceeded it became evident that 
thecauseof the blacks in the South were a great source 

* " ■ of strength to the Confederate cause ; for 

while masters enlisted in the army, slaves by their labor 
supplied food not only for Southern families but for the 




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331 



support of the Southern army. In this way they were 
aiding the cause of the South about as much as if they 
had been able to bear arms. Moreover, the sentiment in 
regard to slavery was changing in the North. People had 
come to look upon it as the cause of the war, and many de- 
sired the government to attack it as a war measure. 

As commander-in-chief of the armies of the United 
States, President Lincoln had authority to set free all slaves 




THE FIRST READING OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 

in territory conquered by the Union armies. Just after 
the Battle of Antietam, therefore, he warned the seceded 
States (September 22, 1862) that unless they returned to the 
Union before January i, 1863, he would set their slaves free. 
As none of these States returned, the emancipation procla- 
mation was issued on January i', 1863. From that time the 
North fought not only for the Union but for the abolition 
of slavery.^ 

339. Employment of Emancipated Blacks in Northern 
Army Stops Exchange of Prisoners. — It was but one step 
further to arm the blacks and make them soldiers. If the 

^ General Butler, early in the war, confiscated the negroes whom he found em- 
ployed in throwing up earthworks for the Confederates near Fortress Monroe. He 
fed and protected them, regarding them as contraband of war. 



332 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Emancipation Proclamation was issued as a military neces- 
sity in order to weaken the South and to make the issue of 
the war perfectly plain to the world, the same military 
necessity would call for the arming of these emancipated 
slaves. Before the end of the war there were enlisted in 
the Union armies 180,000 blacks, who made good soldiers. 
The Confederates bitterly resented the employment of their 
former slaves in the Union armies and refused to recoirnize 




■ifmmS^^^^^ 



A FEDERAL CAVALRY CAMP — WINTER QUARTERS. 

the negro soldiers or their officers in exchanging prisoners. 
This led to mutual misunderstanding and ended in stopping 
all exchange of prisoners. As a result, thousands of sol- 
diers languished in prisons and suffered much from disease 
and famine.' 

340. Conscription in the North; Draft Riots. — In 1863 
the North found it advisable to resort to a conscription or 
draft. All able-bodied men between the ages of eighteen 
and forty-five were enrolled, and from the enrollment a cer- 
tain proportion was chosen by lot. The draft was very 
unpopular, and in New York City, on July 13, 1863, a serious 
riot took place, lasting four days and resulting in the de- 

* Some of the noted Southern pisons were Libby Prison and Belle Isle in Rich- 
mond, Virginia, and Andersonville, in Georgia. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



533 



Struction of much property. The mobs showed especial 
hatred toward colored people, brutally killing many. The 
riot was finally put down by the aid of troops sent from 
Gettysburg-. 

341. Conscription in the South. — In April, 1862, by an 
act of the Confederate Congress, all able-bodied white men 
between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five were required 
to enter the Confederate army. In the autumn of the same 
year all white men between the ages 
of eighteen and forty-five were in- 
eluded in the conscription law, and 
before the close of the war even boys 
of sixteen and seventeen and old men 
were included. So hard pressed for 
men were the Confederates that just 
before the war came to an end their 
Congress had decided to enlist some 
of the slaves in the Confederate army. 
When all exchange of prisoners was 
stopped, the South, by reason of the 
scarcity of fighting men, was much 
more seriously crippled than the 
North. The whole number of men 
captured from the armies of the North and the South in 
the entire war amounted to a half-million. 

342. Battle of Chickamauga (1863). — After the loss of 
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, the strongest and most im- 
portant position held by the Confederates in The importance 
the West was Chattanooga,^ which was not oj Chattanooga, 
only a great railroad centre, but the key to eastern Tennes- 
see and the gateway to Georgia. General Rosecrans, in 




GEORGE H. THOMAS, "THE 
ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA." 



^ From the outbreak of the war the Confederates had made a strenuous effort 
to get control of Kentucky and Tennessee. The outcome was the remarkable 
middle Tennessee campaign in 1862. On the last day of the year the battle of 
Stone's River, or Murfreesboro, was fought, Rosecrans being the commander of the 
Northern army and Bragg of the Southern. The result was the retreat of Bragg 
with his army greatly weakened. This battle kept the South from capturing 
Nashville, and made easier the movement of the Northern army against Chatta- 
nooga in 1863. 
25 



334 



HISTORY OF THE UNIJ'ED STATES 



command of the Union army in Tennessee, advanced with 
55,000 troops upon Chattanooga, which was occupied by 
Bragg. By moving to the south of this place, Rosecrans 
threatened Bragg's line of supplies and compelled him to 
withdraw from Chattanooga and take position at Lafayette 
(September 19-20), tweity-six miles to the south. 

Here Bragg received a strong body of reinforcements 
and vigorously attacked the Union army, now outnumbered. 

He overwhelmed and 
routed the right wing, 

General Thomas a n d W O U 1 d 

save* the Union u „ . „ „ i 

army from ruin- '^ '^ ^ C put 

ous defeat, toroutthe 

entire army but for the 
unflinching courage of 
General Thomas, the 
" Rock of Chicka. 
mauga," who coolly 
held his position on the 
left until the rest of the 
army could make a safe 
retreat to Rossviile on 
Missionary Ridge. 

343. Siege of Chat- 
tanooga. — Although 
Bragg defeated the 
Union army in the bat- 
tle of Chickamauga, he 
did not secure what he greatly desired — Chattanooga itself. 
He therefore strongly fortified himself on Missionary Ridge 
and Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga, and tried 
to cut off the Union army from its supplies. The situation 
r--.*. . ,* .. became serious. For weeks all the Union 

Critical situation . 

of the Union suppHcs had to be brought over a smgle 

army. mountain road for a distance of sixty miles. 

When Grant, who had superseded Rosecrans, reached 
Chattanooga about the middle of November, the number 
of horses and mules had been so reduced by starvation tha*^ 




GENERAL GRANT AND STAFF ON POINT 
LOOKOUT, 1863. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



335 



the artillery could not be moved.^ The soldiers were liv. 
in^ on half-rations, and had not enough ammunition left 
for a single day's battle. But in five days after reaching 
Chattanooga Grant ^ got control of the river line of sup. 
plies. From that time the army, which had been cooped 
up in Chattanooga for months, had an abundance of food. 

344. Battle of Chatta- _ - 
nooga. — Having received 
reinforcements, Grant now 
decided to attack Brag-o-. 

who occupied Bragg's strong 

a very strong position, 
position, with his right flank 
resting on the northern end 
of Missionary Ridge, his 
left flank on the northern 
end of Lookout Mountain, 
and his centre stretching 
across Chattanooga Valley. 
His line was twelve miles 
long and on the flanks ap- 
peared to be almost im- 
pregnable. On November 
24 Grant sent the gallant 
Hooker and his men to 
charge up the rocky heights 
of Lookout Mountain. This 
charge resulted in desperate fighting " above the clouds," 
and in driving Bragg's left flank from its mountain strong. 

• Ten thousand horses and mules had starved to death. 

'When seventeen years of age (see par. 371) Ulysses S. Grant received an ap- 
pointment to a cadetship in the Military Academy at West Point. Although he 
did not take high rank in scholarship, he became the finest horseman in his class, 
and showed a marked aptitude for mathematical studies. Entering the army after 
graduation, he distinguished himself for bravery in many important battles of the 
Mexican War. He remained in the army until 1854, when he resigned his com- 
mission, and continued in private life until the beginning of the Civil War. Dur- 
ing these years he tried farming, store-keeping, and selling real estate, but did not 
have much success. In 1861 he received a commission as colonel of an IHinois^ 
regiment, and, by his extraordinary military skill and ability, rose to the rank of 




SjO history of the united states 

hold. Early next morning Sherman vigorously assaulted 
the north end of Missionary Ridge. Until three o'clock in 
, ^ . the afternoon he struggled to drive the enemy 

Two heroic '^^ f 

<;harge8 by the from the hcights, but in vam. Then Thomas s 
Union troops. ^^^^^^ were Ordered to join the attack. Like a 
mighty whirlwind they swept away all opposition in their 
grand charge up the hill. Bragg's army, overwhelmed and 
defeated, fled from the battle-field in confusion. 

TO THE PUPIL 

I, Observe that after Lee's retreat from Antietam he defeated the Army 
of the Potomac in two battles, the first at Fredericksburg (December, 
1862), and the second at Chancellorsville (April, 1863). What reasons 
had Lee for a second invasion of the North in 1863 ? 

-S. Trace with care upon your map the location of the two armies on the 
second day of the battle of Gettysburg. As this is one of the world's 
great battles you will do well to understand it. Describe Pickett's 
charge. What were the most striking results of the battle ? 

-5. Before studying the capture of Vicksburg review the following battles 
fought to open the Mississippi in 1862: Capture of Forts Henry and 
Donelson, the battle of Shiloh, and the capture of New Orleans. Now 
you are ready to describe the capture of Vicksburg. Read General 
Grant's excellent account of it in his " Personal Memoirs." 

4. Hovr did the slaves aid the Confederate cause ? What vvas the source 

of President Lincoln's authority to set free any of the slaves in the 
South? What was the Emancipation Proclamation? After its issue 
what was the North fighting for? 

5. Why was it natural for the North, after emancipating the blacks, to 

employ them as soldiers ? What effect did such employment have 
upon the exchange of prisoners? 

^. Why was Chattanooga an important military position ? What led 
to the battle of Chickamauga, and how did General Thomas save the 
Union army from rout ? Describe the critical situation of the Union 
army when Grant reached Chattanooga. What were the results of 
the battle of Chattanooga ? 

7. You will find Coffin's books on the Civil War very interesting. 

lieutenant-general (1864) in command of the Union armies. His brilliant strategy 
at Vicksburg and Chattanooga in 1863, and his advance upon Richmond in 1864- 
65, proved him to be one of the greatest military leaders of all time. His iron will, 
resolute purpose, cool judgment, and unflinching courage never failed him in the 
hour of trial and danger. He was also a man of singularly pure and gentle spirit, 
"with a high sense of public duty. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



337 



THE HAMMERING CAMPAIGN 



345. The Union Plan of 1864. — In March, 1864, Grant, 
who had won the confidence of the people by his campaigns 
in the West, was raised to a military rank sec- General Grant 
end only to that of the President, with the title ml^doi^Muio 
of lieutenant-general.^ In reality he was placed union armies, 
in command of all the Northern armies. By the close of 
1863 the Confederacy had been cut down to Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Union armies 
had now to get control of these four 
States. 

Grant was to attempt the capture of 
Richmond, which was defended by 
Lee ; Sherman was to get control of 
Georgia by defeating Johnston, who 
had command of the Confederates 
there. The watchword in the East was 
"On to Richmond;" in the West, "On 
to Atlanta." These two movements 
were planned to begin at the same 
time, early in May, so that, if possible, 
the Confederate armies might be pre- 
vented from aiding each other. 

346, "On to Richmond." — Grant's advance upon Rich- 
mond began (May 4) by crossing the Rapidan and entering 
the Wilderness. He had 120,000^ men against 
Lee's 62,000. For two days in the thick, 
gloomy woods, where the enemy could not be seen twenty 
feet away, a terrible struggle ensued. Grant's loss was se- 
vere, but he pressed on, writing to Lincoln, " I propose to 
fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." As Grant 
moved forward, terrible battles were fought at Spott- 
sylvania Court House (May 8-18) and at Cold Harbor 




GENERAL U. S. GRANT. 



In the Wilderness. 



* Before that time only Washington and Scott had been made lieutenant-generals. 
'Grant's army, arranged in ranks of four, the ranks being five feet apart, would 
extend a distance of more than twenty-eight miles. 



33S 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



(June 3). Before the close of June he had lost more than 
60,000 men, and Lee, 40,000. 

Realizing after this great loss of life that he could not 
capture Richmond by attacking it from the north, Grant 
Grant transfers transferred his army across the James in order 
his army across to attack the city from the south. Here an 
the James. attempt was made to capture Petersburg 

(July 30) by exploding a mine under the outer Confederate 
defences. The explosion was followed by a vigorous as- 
sault, but the plan failed. 

347. Early's Raid in the Shenandoah. — It will be re- 
membered thatin 1862, when McClellan was near Richmond, 



r-^^Q^'l^^f 




T-^^ 



BITLDING A PONTOON BKIDGF.. 



"Stonewall" Jackson was sent into the Shenandoah to 
threaten Washington and prevent McDowell from reinforc- 
ing McClellan. In 1864 L e tried in the same way to 
weaken the attack upon Richmond. Toward the last of 
June he sent Early with 20,000 men to threaten Washington 
Early threatens by way of the Shenandoah. Early swept on 
Washington and ^^^^^ YiQ met General Lew Wallace with a 

burns Chambers- ,, r .1 ■»» n • 

burg. much smaller force on the Monocacy River, 

not far from Washington. Here Wallace fought a losing 
battle in order to detain Early long enough for Grant to 
get a part of his army into Washington. These troops 
reached the city just in time to prevent its capture. A lit- 
tle later Early again pushed down the Shenandoah across 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



339 




the Potomac into Pennsylvania, where he burned Chambers- 
burg. 

348. Sheridan in the Shenandoah. — To put an end to 
such raids in the North, General Sheridan^ was sent with 
30,000 men to watch General Early and to lay waste the 
fruitful Shenandoah Valley. After defeating Early and 
chasing him up the valley, Sheridan 
destroyed 2,000 barns 'filled with 
grain and farming implements and 
seventy mills filled with flour and 
wheat, besides driving off thousands 
of sheep and cattle. A few days 
later, while Sheridan^ was away, 
Early surprised the Union army at 
Cedar Creek, and drove it back 
seven miles. This was the occasion 
of " Sheridan's Ride " «« sheridan'a 

from Winchester, R^^e-" 

about fourteen (not " twenty ") 
miles away. On Sheridan's arrival 
he found that the Union forces had been formed in battle 
array, Early's army was totally defeated (October 19) and 
driven in confusion from the field. 

* Philip H. Sheridan was born in Ohio in 1831, and died in 18S8. He was 
graduated from West Point in 1853. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he was 
made chief quartermaster of the army in the southwestern part of Missouri. He 
handled his troops so ably at the battle of Murfreesboro that he was promoted to the 
rank of major-general. He gave further striking evidence of military skill and dar- 
ing at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. In 1864 Grant had Sheridan put in com- 
mand of all the cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. His campaign in the Shenan- 
doah was one of the great military achievements of the war. He was so popular that 
he was called by his men " Little Phil." Some years before his death he became 
lieutenant-general, and on his death-bed was promoted to the rank of general in-chief. 

* In the early morning of the battle, General Sheridan, who was at Winchester 
on his return from Washington, was informed of the firing in the direction of Cedar 
Creek. Mounting his handsome coal-black horse, he rode at full speed toward the 
scene of battle. When he met the retreating soldiers he shouted, "Turn back, 
men — turn back! Face the other way! " His inspiring presence heartened the 
soldiers. With waving hats they cried, "Sheridan! Sheridan! "and cheerfully 
followed their leader as he dashed forward. Sheridan's ride changed defeat into 
overwhelming victory. 



PHILIP H. SHERIDAN. 



^40 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



349. ** On to Atlanta." — Early in May, 1864, Sherman,' 

with 100,000 men, was at Chattanooga, facing Johnston, with 
64,000, at Dalton. It was desirable to get 



Importance of 
Atlanta and 
Georgia. 



possession of Georgia because it was the 




workshop, the arsenal, and the storehouse of 
the Confederacy. Sherman's plan was to capture Atlanta, 
an important railroad and manufacturing centre, and then 

to pass on to the sea 
and destroy the sup- 
plies necessary to sus- 
tain the Confederate 
armies.'^ 

Sherman had great 
difficulties to face. In 

Sherman's the firSt 

difficulties. place, an 

able general, Joseph 
E. Johnston, opposed 
him ; in the second 
place, every mile ol 
advance took him far- 
ther away from his 
base of supplies at 
He soon had to protect a long line of com- 
which the enemy was constantly trying to 

* William T. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1820, and died in 1891. 
Having graduated from West Point in 1S40, he remained in the army until 1853 
and then resigned his commission to engage in business. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War he became a colonel and took part in the battle of Bull Run. Soon after 
that battle he was raised to the rank of brigadier-general and transferred to Ilalleck's 
command in the Department of the W'est. His great military skill was shown at 
Shiloh and in the memorable Vicksburg campaign. When, therefore, Grant was 
placed in command of all the Union armies in 1864, he secured the appointment 
of Sherman as commander of the armies of the West. The " March to the Sea," 
one of the notable military achievements of modern history, followed. Sherman 
was among the ablest generals of the Civil W^ar. When Grant became general-in- 
chief of the army in 1866, Sherman was made lieutenant-general, and when Grant 
was elected President, Sherman was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief. 

* Such a course may seem cruel, but it is just as good generalship to starve an 
army into submission as to kill with firearms. Its effect is to shorten war and save 
Ufe. 



DESTROYliNG A RAILROAD AT ATLANTA, GA. 

Nashville, 
munication 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



341 



destroy. Johnston's plan was to draw him as far as pos- 
sible from Nashville, always avoiding a pitched battle. 
Sherman's plan was to flank Johnston and threaten his line 
of communication with Atlanta. By a series of flank move- 
ments Sherman compefled Johnston to retreat. Battles 
were fought at Resaca, New Hope Church, and Kenesaw 
Mountain. 

Both generals were skilful, but Johnston, by his cautious 
movements, failed to satisfy the Confederate authorities. 
He was superseded by Hood, who 
was as rash and impetuous as John- 
ston was careful and capture of 
cautious. Hood at once Atlanta, 
made desperate attacks upon Sher- 
man and was soon defeated. By 
cutting the railroad connections on 
the south Sherman captured Atlanta 
(September 2, 1864). 

350. Sherman's " March to the 
Sea." — A little later Sherman, cut- 
ting loose from all communication 
with the North, started through 
Georgia on his famous march to the 

sea, which was some two hundred miles away. Hood, by 
moving northward, tried to draw Sherman after him, but 
Sherman sent Thomas to look after Hood, while he himself 
moved southward from Atlanta. After destroying three 
hundred miles of railroad and laying waste the country 
over a belt sixty miles wide, "from Atlanta to the sea," 
Sherman, with the loss of less than a thousand men, reached 
Savannah just before Christmas. He presented Savannah 
as a "Christmas gift" to the government.^ In the mean- 




WILLIAM T. SHERMAN. 



' The following was Sherman's message to the President : 

Savannah, Georgia, December 22, 1S64. 
To His Excellency, President Lincoln, Washington, D. C: 

I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hun- 
dred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thou- 
sand bales of cotton. W. T. Sherman, Major-General. 

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342 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



time Thomas so thoroughly routed Hood's army at Nash- 
ville that it could not be brought together again. 

351. Capture of Mobile. — As we have seen, one of the 
leading purposes of the North was to prevent, by blockade, 
the export of Southern cotton. By the middle of 1864 
Union war-vessels had closed to foreign trade nearly all 
the Southern ports. One of the most important of these 
was Mobile, which Admiral Farragut, in co-operation with 




MAP ILLUSTRATING 

SHERMAN'S MAROff 

TO THE SEA. 

Scale of Miles. 
S5 Ml IS 10 

CO. 78'', 



a land force of 5,000 men, was sent to capture. Realizing 
the great value of Mobile, the Confederates had prepared 
The defences for a vigorous dcfcncc. Two strong forts 

of Mobile. stood ou oppositc sidcs of the entrance of the 

bay, the channel of which was obstructed by torpedoes. 
Within the bay were three gun-boats and the powerful iron- 
clad ram, Tennessee. 

At six o'clock on the morning of August 5, 1864, the 
Union fleet, consisting of fourteen wooden vessels and four 
monitors, was under wav. in order that he might see over 
the smoke. Admiral Farragut,^ then sixty-three years old, 

' David Glasgow Farragut was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, in l8oi, and 
died in 1870. The night before the terrible struggle in Mobile Bay he wrote to hi.« 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



343 



took his position in the rigging of the flagship Hartford, 
One of the monitors was sunk by a torpedo, but the remain- 
der of the fleet passed into the bay and engaged the Ten- 
nessee, the strongest of the Confederate iron-clads. By ten 
o'clock the fight was over and the capture of Mobile as- 
sured. In a few days the forts surrendered to the land 
force. This signal victory was due to the unflinching cour- 
age of Admiral Farragut. 

352. Sympathy of English Workingmen with the North. 
— We may now leave the armies for a while and consider 
how England and France were look- 
ing upon the war. Jefferson Davis 
and the South greatly erred when 
they counted upon the sympathy of 
the working classes in England, for 
when English workingmen under- 
stood that the war was a struggle 
between freedom and slavery, their 
sympathies were with the North. 
Although the cotton famine in Eng- 
land, produced by the blockade of 
the South, forced hundreds of thou- 
sands out of employment, these 
starving laborers prayed for the 
success of the North. On the other 

hand, the aristocracy, with a few exceptions, and the Eng- 
lish Government, being more in sympathy with the aristo- 
cratic Southern planter and perhaps jealous of American 
commerce, favored the South. 

353. England and the Confederate Navy. — The South 
was in great need of a navy, and had no facilities for build- 
ing one. English shipbuilders, therefore, with the knowl- 
edge of the English Government, responded to the need 
of the South, and built formidable Confederate cruisers in 
British dock-yards. These cruisers drove our merchant 
marine from the sea. 

wife : "I am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, if God is my leader, as I hope 
He is, and in Him I place my trust. God bless and preserve you, my darling, and 
my dear boy, if anything should happen to me." 




DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT. 



344 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

The most famous cruiser was the Alabama} commanded 

by Captain Semmes. This vessel was built with English 

money in an English port, was manned by an 

The Alabama. „ ,/, • V t- i • i j 

bnghsh crew, carried English gunners, and 
hoisted an English flag. In a word, with the exception of 
her officers, she was an English vessel built for the special 
purpose of destroying Northern commerce. Charles Fran- 
cis Adams, our able minister to England at that time, pro- 
tested, but in vain. The United States, in the midst of a 
civil war, no longer commanded the respect of the English 
Government. Our country was not in a position to demand 
justice and satisfaction. But it resented England's attitude 
none the less keenly, and the time came when England was 
wise enough to listen. 

The Alabama (1862-64) captured over sixty Northern 
vessels, amounting in value, with their cargoes, to over $7,- 
TheKearsaree 000,000. The duel between \\i& Alabama iiXidi 
sinks the the Kcarsargc, which had gone out in search of 

Alabama. y^^^ ^ ^^,^g fought off the coast of Fraucc (June 

19, 1864). The Alabama, in about one hour, was shattered 
and sunk. The sinking of the Alabama put an end to the 
destructive work of Confederate cruisers. After the war 
England paid more than $15,000,000 for damages done by 
The Alabama Confederate cruisers. As the first of these 
Claims. claims made by our government for redress 

grew out of acts committed by the Alabama, all the claims 
growing out of the acts of all the vessels became known as 
the "Alabama Claims." 

354. Napoleon III. and the Confederate Navy. — But 
the English Government did not stand alone in its un- 
friendly attitude. The French Government was equally 

^ " A score of other Confederate cruisers roamed the seas to prey upon United 
States commerce, but none of them became quite so famous as the Sumter and 
the Alabama. They included the Shenandoah, which made thirty-eight captures; 
the Florida, which made thirty-six; the Tallahassee, which made twenty-seven; 
the Tacony, which made fifteen; and the Georgia, which made ten. Most of these 
cruisers were built in British ship-yards." — R. JoHNSON. 

The attitude of the English government toward the Confederate navy was most 
ODfortunate, naturally causing in the North much bitter feeling toward Engjland. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 345 

hostile to the North. Napoleon III., for personal reasons, 
was eager for the success of the Confederate cause, and 
urged England to acknowledge the independence of the 
South. He wished to see the Union dissolved, Napoieon-s desire 
because it was his desire to establish an em- to establish an 
pire upon the ruins of the republic of Mexico, ^"P'''" in Mexico, 
and he knew that so long as the Union remained unbroken 
he would not be permitted to carry out his plans. He also, 
during the later years of the war, with contemptible du- 
plicity equal to that of Napoleon I. just before the War of 
1812, allowed formidable iron-clads for the Southern navy 
to be built in France. One of these was finally launched, 
but the war was at an end before it could reach our coast. 

Napoleon sent a French army to invade Mexico in 1861. 
By 1863 it had established an empire there, and Napoleon 
offered the throne to Maximilian, Archduke Maximilian in 
of Austria. The United States protested, but Mexico, 
in vain. After the close of the war, however, in response 
to the threatening attitude of this country. Napoleon with- 
drew the French troops. Maximilian was then taken pris- 
oner by the Mexican authorities, tried by court-martial, and 
shot. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. What part of the Confederacy remained unconquered at the close of 

1863? Describe the Union plan of campaign in 1864. Outline the 
"On to Richmond " movement. 

2. Compare Early's raid in the Shenandoah in 1864 with Jackson's move- 

ment in that valley in 1862. What did Jackson accomplish ? What 
did Early accomplish ? Why v^as Sheridan sent into the Shenan- 
doah? What did he accomplish there ? Why -was the Shenandoah 
of importance to the Confederates ? 

3. Why was it desirable for the North to get possession of Atlanta? 

What difficulties did Sherman meet in his advance upon Atlanta? 
What was Johnston's plan of defence ? 

4. Outline Sherman's *' March to the Sea." Which do you think was the 

abler general, Sherman or Johnston ? Give reasons for your answer. 

5. What did Jefferson Davis mean by speaking of cotton as "king"? 

At this point review the " Trent Affair," the importance of the block- 
ade, the attempt on the part of the South to break the blockade by 



346 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

means of the " Merrimac," and the effect the blockade had upon cot« 
ton export, 

6. Why did English workingmen sympathize with the North ? Why 

did the English aristocracy and the English Government favor the 
South ? In what way did English shipbuilders aid the South ? 

7. What was the "Alabama," and what was the attitude of the English 

Government toward Southern cruisers built in English dockyards? 
What became of the " Alabama " ? What were the "Alabama 
Claims " ? 

8. How did Napoleon III. show his sympathy with the South ? What 

w^as his scheme in sending Maximilian to Mexico ? In this connec- 
tion review the Monroe Doctrine, and find out whether or not Napo- 
leon III. violated this doctrine by supporting Maximilian with a 
French army. Why were the French troops withdrawn from Mex- 
ico after the Civil War ? 

9. Subject for debate : Resolved, that Grant was a better general than 

Lee. 

APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE 

355. Fall of Richmond. — By the various disasters which 
we have recounted the Southern cause was brought into 
Lee fails to break desperate straits. Careful observers could see 
through Grant's that the cud was near.* Sherman, after re. 
^'^y- maining about a month in Savannah, started 

through the Carolinas northward (February 1). Lee, with 
40,000 men, still held Richmond, which Grant, with 100,000 
men, was trying to capture. In order to join Johnston's 
force in North Carolina, Lee made one last effort to break 
through the Union army lying south of Petersburg. This 
plan was defeated by Sheridan in the battle of Five Forks, 
where 5,000 Confederates were captured. 

The next day (April 2) Lee evacuated Richmond and 
started on a retreat westward. The pursuit was hot. Hun- 
dreds of the Confederates, having little to eat 
and believing that their cause was hopeless, 
deserted, and thousands threw away their arms. Theii 
condition was pitiable. For five or six days they lived on 

' Tn the spring of this year General Wilson, in a brilliant cavalry movement, 
captured the five fortified cities of Selma, Montgomery, West Point, Columbus, and 
Macon . 'Ihese places had important railroad connections, contained valuable 
supplies for the Confederate army, and manufactured for it wa- material. 



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347 




A COUNCIL OF WAR AT MASSAPONAX CHURCH. 



parched corn and the shoots of trees. One week after leav- 
ing Richmond (April 9), Lee, finding- that every avenue 
of escape was cut off, agreed to hold a conference with 
Grant at Appomattox Court House, about seventy-five 
miles west of Richmond, to consider terms of surrender. 

356. Lee's Surrender. — It was a notable meeting. The 
result of the interview was the surrender of Lee with 26,000 
men, only 8,000 of whom had arms. The Grant's delicacy 
terms of surrender were very generous to the <>* Reeling. 
Confederates, who were to lay down their arms and were 
not, unless properly exchanged, to take them up again. 
With rare delicacy of feeling Grant ordered that all the 
Confederates owning horses or mules should be allowed to 



348 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

take them home. "They will need them for the spring 
ploughing-/* he said. But consideration for the Confeder- 
ate soldiers did nqt stop here, for when they marched in 
front of the Union soldiers to stack arms in token of sur- 
render the Union soldiers saluted them. The Confederates 
promptly returned the salute. 

Grant's attitude toward the Confederates, which won 
the hearts of the Southern people, was like that of the 
^. , ..„ United States Government as a whole. Only 

The generous J 

attitude of the One Confederate — the keeper of Anderson- 
Qovernment. ^jj|g Prisou— was put to death at the close of 
the war. The death-penalty in this case was inflicted, not 
at all for connection with the Confederate movement, but 
because of inhuman cruelty. No government ever showed 
so great mercy to those who had tried to break it in 
pieces. The great struggle ended when Johnston surren. 
dered to Sherman near Raleigh, North Carolina (April 26, 
1865). 

357. Flight and Capture of Jefferson Davis. — On Sun- 
day morning, April 2, Jefferson Davis was attending service 
at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond when an offi- 
cer walked quietly up the aisle with a telegram from Lee 
announcing the retreat of the latter from Petersburg. Da- 
vis at once left the church and prepared to leave the city. 
In a vain endeavor to escape capture he fied through the 
Carolinas into Georgia. While encamped in the woods 
near Irwinsville, Georgia, in the early morning he was sur- 
prised and captured (May 10), He was taken to Fortress 
Monroe and confined there for two years. At the end of 
that time many well-known men — among whom was Horace 
Greeley, a Republican leader of great prominence — used 
their influence to secure his release. Davis was never 
brought to trial. 

358. The Assassination of Lincoln. — The rejoicing of 
the people over the return of peace soon gave place to 
mourning for the loss of the one who had safely piloted 
the nation through the storm of war. On the evening of 
April 14, 1865, while President Lincoln was at Ford'sThea- 




THE SURRENDER OF LEE TO GRANT AT APPOMATTOX. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 349 

tre in Washington, an obscure actor, half-crazed over what 
he believed to be the wrongs of the South, entered the Pres- 
ident's box from the rear and shot him through the head. 
He then leaped upon the stage, and shouting ^'^ Sic semper 
tyrannis ! " (So be it always to tyrants), rushed out of the 
stage-door amid the wildest excitement of the people and 
escaped. In a few days he was hunted to his hiding-place 
in Virginia and shot dead while resisting capture. 

Lincoln's assassin was at the head of a conspiracy whose 
aim was to bring confusion to the government by killing 
some of the leading men and thus creating a The aim of the 
panic. On the same evening one of these con- conspirators, 
spirators forced his way to the bedside of Secretary Sew- 
ard, who was lying ill in his home, and vainly tried to stab 
him to death. Four of these conspirators were hanged and 
three imprisoned for life. 

Lincoln, who was shot a little after ten o'clock in the 
evening, lingered, unconscious, until early next morning. 
When Lincoln's spirit passed away, Secretary The grief of the 
Stanton was the first to break the silence by people. 
saying, " Now he belongs to the ages." The griet of the 
people for the nation's hero was well-nigh universal. On 
Friday, April 21, the train that was to take his body to 
Springfield, Illinois, moved slowly out of Washington on its 
mournful journey. In order that the people might have 
opportunity to express their love and grief for the departed 
leader, it stopped at many large cities along the route. 
The unbroken silence amid which the vast throngs filed 
past the open coffin as the body lay in state indicated a feel- 
ing too deep for words. 

The spirit of his noble service is well illustrated in the 
closing words of his second inaugural address, March 4, 
1865:^ "With malice toward none, with charity for all, 
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the 
nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the 

' It seems fitting to introduce here the memoraole Gettysburg speech, made at 
Gettysburg, November 19, 1863, on the occasion of the dedication of the National 



350 HISTORY OF THE UNll ED STATES 

battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which 
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among 
ourselves and with all nations." 

359. The Sanitary and Christian Commissions. — Early 
in the war the Sanitary Commission was organized by 
good men and women to supplement the work of the 
government in aiding needy and distressed soldiers. Rec- 
ognized by the government and supported by all classes 
of the people, its career was one of extraordinary useful- 
ness. It had its own physicians, nurses, and attendants, its 
own transports and methods of work. It ministered to the 
wounded on the battle-field and carried the wounded sol- 
diers by easy methods of conveyance to the hospital. Fur- 
thermore, it gave special relief to men on sick-leave, col- 
lected and distributed supplies, and in every possible way 
cared for the suffering and needy soldiers. 

The Christian Commission cared for the souls as well as 
the bodies of the soldiers. It distributed tracts, held prayer- 
meetings in improvised chapels, comforted the dying, and, 
where possible, gave Christian burial. This commission 

Cemetery there. The speech well exemplifies, in its brevity, simplicity, and ten- 
derness of feeling, the character of President Lincoln : 

Lincoln's Gettysburg speech 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a 
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are 
created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that na- 
tion, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on 
a great battle-field of that war. We are come to dedicate a portion of that field as 
a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. 
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we 
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave 
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power 
to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here ; 
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be ded- 
icated here to the unfinished work which they, who fought here, have thus far so 
nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining 
before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause 
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion : that we here highly resolve 
that these dead shall not have died m vain ; that this nation, under God, shall have 
a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for 
the people, shall not perish from the earth. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 



351 



'also received the recognition and support of the govern- 
ment. Thousands of noble women at home, in hospitals, 
and near the scenes of battles expressed in The work of 
their service through these commissions not noblewomen, 
only a tender love and. sympathy, but a patriotism as 
faithful and true as that of the brave soldiers whom they 
attended. 

360. The Results of the War. — The Civil War was one 
of gigantic proportions. At its close the South w^as pros- 



M 









•y — 



A SANITARY COMMISSION LODGE NEAR ALEXANDRIA, VA. 

trated, the North was under severe strain. About 600,000 
men had been killed, and several hundred thousand more 
permanently injured. The loss of wealth can never be told, 
but, including the expenditure of the government and 
the States, the destruction of property by both armies, and 
the value of slaves to the South, the war cost not far from 
eight thousand millions of dollars. 

The most important result of the Civil War was that 
slavery was forever abolished throughout the Union.* The 
Emancipation Proclamation had set free only the slaves in 

* See Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. 



352 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

those States and parts of States conquered by Union armies , 
but now slavery was entirely swept away, and with it the 
attendant evils of State rights, nullification, and secession. 
The supremacy of the Union was established, and the United 
States, " one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for 
all," turned her energies to the new struggle of building up 
what had been torn down by four years of frightful havoc 
•^the industries and wealth of her people. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Before studying the fall of Richmond review the various attempts 

made by the Army of the Potomac to capture that city. Your review 
will include Bull Run, the Peninsular Campaign, and the " Onto Rich, 
mond " movement in 1864. 

2. Describe Lee's retreat and his memorable surrender. 

3. Read Lincoln's second inaugural, and memorize his Gettysburg speech. 

4. Subject for debate : Resolved, that the army did more effective work 

than the navy in the Civil War, 

5. What were the Sanitary and Christian Commissions ? What were 

the most important results of the virar ? Are you sure you know its 
causes ? 

6. If you will read Alcott's Hospital Sketches you will get a sad picture 

of suffering in the hospitals during the war. 



CHRONOLOGY 

1789. March 4, FIRST CONGRESS ASSEMBLED IN NEW YORK. 
April 30, WASHINGTON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1790. THE FIRST CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 3,929,214. 

1791. VERMONT ADMITTED TO THE tTNIGN — FIRST NATIONAL BANK ESTABLISHED 

1792. KENTUCKY ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1793. WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS. 
COTTON-GIN INVENTED BY ELI WHITNEY. 

1794. THE WHISKEY INSURRECTION. 

1795. jay's TREATY RATIFIED. 

1796. TENNESSEE ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1797. March 4, JOHN ADAMS INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1798. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY CREATED BY ACT OF CONGRESS. 
ALIEN AND SEDITION LAWS ENACTED BY CONGRESS. 

1800. THE SECOND CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 5,308,483. 

1801. JOHN MARSHALL MADE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. 
March 4, JEFFERSON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1802. OHIO ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1803. LOUISIANA PURCHASED FROM FRANCE. 



SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR 353;. 

r804. LEWIS AND CLARK STARTED ON THEIR EXPEDITION 

1805. TREATY OF PEACE WITH TRIPOLI. 

i8o6. AARON burr's EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTHWEST. 

November 20, THE BERLIN DECREE ISSUED. 
1807. TRIAL TRIP OF FULTON'S FIRST STEAMBOAT. 

November, THE ORDERS IN COUNCIL. 

December, THE EMBARGO ACT PASSED BY CONGRESS. 

1809. March 4, MADISON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1810. THE THIRD CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 7,239,881. 

181 1. THE FIRST STEAMBOAT STARTS DOWN THE OHIO FROM PITTSBURG FOR NEW 

ORLEANS. 
November 7, BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE. 

1812. LOUISIANA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

June 18, WAR DECLARED AGAINST ENGLAND. 
August 16, hull's SURRENDER OF DETROIT. 

August 19, NAVAL FIGHT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES X'ESSEL CONSTITU- 
TION AND THE BRITISH FRIGATE GUERRIERE. 

1813. March 4, MADISON'S second inauguration. 
September 10, perry's victory on lake Erie. 

October 5, BATTLE OF THE THAMES. 

Jackson's campaign against the southern Indians. 

1814. campaign on the NIAGARA ; BATTLES OF CHIPPEWA AND LUNDV'S LANE.. 
August 25, CAPTURE OF WASHINGTON BY THE BRITISH. 

September 11, battle of plattsburg. 
December 15, HARTFORD convention met. 
December 24, treaty of peace signed at Ghent. 

181 5. January 8, battle OF NEW ORLEANS. 

1816. THE SECOND UNITED STATES BANK CHARTERED. 
INDIANA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1817. March 4, monroe inaugurated president. 

July 4, CONSTRUCTION OF THE ERIE CANAL BEGUN. 
MISSISSIPPI ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1818. STEAM NAVIGATION BEGUN ON THE GREAT LAKES. 
ILLINOIS ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1819. ALABAMA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

THE STEAMSHIP SAVANNAH MADE THE FIRST TRIP ACROSS THE AT'JU^TIC, 
FROM SAVANNAH TO LIVERPOOL. 

1820. MAINE ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

THE FOURTH CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 9,633,822. 
i82I, RATIFICATION OF TREATY OF 1819, CEDING FLORIDA TO THE UNITED STATES. 
MISSOURI COMPROMISE ADOPTED BY CONGRESS. 
MISSOURI ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1825. March 4, john quincy adams inaugurated president. 

CORNER-STONE OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT LAID IN BOSTON BY LAFAYETTE. 
ERIE CANAL OPENED. 

1826. FIRST RAILROAD BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES (AT QmNCY. MASS.). 

1828. FIRST PASSENGER RAILROAD IN THE UNITED STATES BEGtTN (AT BALTIMORE, MD.). 

1829. March 4, JACKSON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1830. THE FIFTH CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 12,866,020. 

183 1. GARRISON ESTABLISHED "THE LIBERATOR." 

1832. NULLIFICATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 

1833. REMOVAL OF DEPOSITS FROM THE UNITED STATES BANK. 
1835. TEXAS Pl=:CLARED HER INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO. 

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354 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

1836. June 15, ARKANSAS ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1837. January 26, MICHIGAN ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 
March 4, VAN BUREN INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1840. THE riRST CUNARD STEAMER SAILS FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK. 
THE SIXTH CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 17,069,453. 

1841. March 4, HARRISON INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1842. THE DORR REBELLION IN RHODE ISLAND. 
THE ASHBURTON TREATY CONCLUDED. 

1644. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH LINE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHING- 
TON. 

1845. TEXAS ANNEXED BY JOINT RESOLUTION. 
March 3, FLORIDA admitted to THE UNION. 
March 4, POLK INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

December 29, TEXAS admitted to the union. 

1846. May 8, battle of palo alto, beginning of the Mexican war. 
August 8, da\id wilmot introduced HIS proviso in congress. 
December 28, IOWA admitted to the union. 

1847. February 22, 23, BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA. 
March 27, SURRENDER OF VERA CRUZ. 

September 14, city of Mexico occupied by the American forces. 

1848. February, TREATY OF PEACE WITH MEXICO CONCLUDED. 
gold DISCOVERED IN CALIFORNIA. 

May 29, WISCONSIN ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1849. March 4, taylor inaugurated president. 

1850. THE CLAY compromise PASSED. 

THE SEVENTH CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 23,191,876. 
September 9, CALIFORNIA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1853. March 4, PIERCE INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 

1854. May 30, THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL PASSED. 

1857. March 4, BUCHANAN INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 
March 6, THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. 

1858. May II, MINNESOTA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1859. February 14, OREGON admitted TO THE UNION.. 
October, JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY. 

i860. THE EIGHTH CENSUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 31,443,321. 
December 20, SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDED. 

1861. January, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, AND LOUISIANA SECEDED, 
January 29, KANSAS ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

February, TEXAS SECEDED ; PROVISIONAL CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT ORGAN- 
IZED. 
March 4, LINCOLN inaugurated PRESIDENT. 

dprii 12 13, BOMBfiKTMENI fS KBI H'?!!BS 

Apfit 1;, nKGITvTA SEC'EuEt/. 

April 19, FIRST BLOOD SHED, IN BALTIMORE. 
May, ARKANSAS AND NORTH CAROLINA SECEDED. 
July 21, FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 
iVo-oember 8, MASON AND SLIDELL TAKEN FROM THE TRENT, 

1862. February 16, SURRENDER OF FORT DONELSON. 

March 9, FIGHT BETWEEN THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR. 

April 6, 7, BATTLE OF PITTSBURG LANDING (SHILOH). 

April 25, CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS BY FARRAGUT. 

June 25, THE SEVEN days' BATTLES BEFORE RICHMOND BEGUN, 

August 2q, 30, SECOND BATTLES OF BULL RUN. 



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1862. September 17, battle of antietam. 
December 13, battle OF Fredericksburg. 

1863. jfanuary 1, emancipation proclamation issued. 
May 2, 3, BATTLE OF chancellorsville. 

June 20, WEST VIRGINIA ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 
yuly 1-3, BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 
July 4, SURRENDER OF \aCKSBURG. 
Ju/y 8, SURRENDER OF PORT HUDSON. 
September 19, 20, BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. 
November 24, 25, BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA. 

May 4, Sherman's Atlanta campaign begun. 

1864. May 5, 6, grant's advance on lee, battle of the wilderness. 

"June 14, GRANT CROSSES THE JAMES ; SIEGE OF PETERSBURG BEGUN. 

June 19, THE ALABAMA SUNK BY THE KEARSARGE. 

August 5, BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY. 

September 2, FALL OF ATLANTA. 

September and October, Sheridan's campaign in the shenandoah vajxet,- 

October 19, BATTLE OF cedar creek. 

October 31, Nevada admitted to the xtoion. 

November 15, Sherman's march to the sea begun. 

December 15, 16, BATTLE OF NASHVILLE. 
December 21, SHERMAN ENTERS SAVANNAH. 

1865. January 15, FORT FISHER CAPTURED BY GENERAL TERRY, 
March 4, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURATION. 
April I, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, 

April 2, RICHMOND EVACUATED. 

April 9, SURRENDER OF LEE'S ARMY. 

April 14, PRESIDENT LINCOLN ASSASSINATED. 

April 26, SURRENDER OF JOHNSTON'S ARMY. 

May 10, CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DA\7S. 

May 23, 24, REVIEW OF THE ARMY AT WASHINGTON. 



IRcconetruction anb tbe IRcw ITlnion 

CHAPTER XIX 

RECONSTRUCTION DAYS (1865-1871) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, V.; A^« 
drews's United States, II.; Andrews's Last Quarter Century, I.; Burgess^* 
Civil War and Reconstruction; Wilson's Division and Reunion; Richardson's 
History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Wilson's A History of the American People; Golii- 
win Smith's United States; Alexander H. Stephens's War between the 
States ; Jefferson Davis's Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government : 
Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress; McPherson's Political History of Recon- 
struction ; McCulloch's Men and Measures of Half a Century. 

361. Condition of the South when Johnson became 
President. — If all the wisdom and tact of Lincoln had been 
required during- the war, much more were they needed in 
the trying days of reconstruction. The public debt was 
enormous, and the whole country was suffering from the 
strain of war. Fortunes had been lost, family circles broken, 
and thousands of brave fathers, husbands, and brothers 
slain in battle. Conditions were hardest in the South, where 
wasted plantations and ruined homes bore evidence of the 
terrible havoc of war. Bodies of Union cavair}' were scour- 
ing the country in search of Confederate leaders who, when 
captured, were sent to forts and imprisoned until the nation 
should decide their fate. 

"What shall be done with the leading Confederates?" 
"How shall the millions of Southern negroes be cared for?" 
Perplexing " I" what way shall the seceded States be 

questions. treated?" These were a few of the perplex- 

ing questions of those trying times. It was hard to know 

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357 



what was best to do — so hard that men soon realized that 
Lee's surrender presented new troubles as difficult to settle 
as the problems that brought on the war itself. 

362. Andrew Johnson.^ — Andrew Johnson, who suc- 
ceeded Lincoln, was rash, hot-tempered, and self-willed, ut- 
terly without the delicate tact and persuasive power that 
gave Lincoln such a remarkable influence over men. In 
politics he was a strict constructionist, 
but was devoted to the Union. At the 
beginning of the war he was the only 
senator from the secession States who 
refused to resign his office. At this 
time he was an ardent believer in the 
doctrine of State rights, but he had no 
sympathy with the secession move- 
ment. This was accounted for by the 
fact that he was brought up among 
the "poor whites" and was therefore 
prejudiced alike against the rich men 
of the South and the negroes. We 
need not be surprised, then, to find 
him ready to put to death Jefferson 
Davis and other distinguished Confederates, and to show 
no special concern about the protection of the freedmen. 

363. President Johnson's Plan of Restoring the Se- 
ceded States. — By the middle of July, 1865, President John- 
son took steps to restore the eleven Confederate States ta 
their places in the Union. Congress would not meet until. 




ANDREW JOHNSON. 



'Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-1869V 
was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, and died in 1875. His parents be- 
longed to the class of people known as the "poor whites, "and therefore his early 
advantages were extremely limited ; but he was fearless, honest, energetic, and 
ambitious. He taught himself to read while apprenticed to a tailor, and after his 
marriage his wife taught him to write and cipher. While a young man he re- 
moved to Tennessee with his mother and sister, who were dependent upon him. 
There he gained the confidence of the people, and occupied one public office after 
another until his election to the Senate of the United States. He was governor of 
Tennessee when he was elected Vice-President, and after Lincoln's assassinatioa 
he became President. 



358 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

December, and up to that time he could carry out his own 
ideas in regard to the South. He appointed provisional 
governors, who were to call upon tlie white voters in their 
respective States to elect delegates to State conventions. 
These conventions were to pass three votes : (i) To declare 
the Ordinances of Secession to be null and void ; (2) to repu- 
diate the Confederate war-debt; (3) and to ratify the Thir 
teenth Amendment, which forever abolished slavery in the 
United States.^ The votes having been passed by all the 
seceded States, the President recognized the State govern- 
ments^ and declared them ready to be represented in Con- 
gress (December, 1865). 

364. The Freedmen and Southern Legislation. — It was 
believed in the South that the freedmen, having so long 
been accustomed as slaves to the direction of masters and 
overseers, would not work unless compelled by law, and 
that the safety of the South was threatened by the pres 
ence of several million ignorant and shiftless beings 
Southern Legislatures, therefore, began to enact laws whose 
results would have been to reduce the negroes to a condi- 
tion little short of actual slaver}'. These laws aroused in- 
dignation in the North and had great influence in shaping 
the work of reconstruction. 

365. The Congressional Plan of Reconstruction in the 
Seceded States (1867). — When Congress met in December. 
1865, the Republicans refused to admit the representatives 
and senators from the seceded States until something 
President John- should bc douc to protcct the frecdmcu in 
•on's bitter feel. ^■^ ■ • -^ eights. This actiou madc Presi- 

Ing; toward Con> i= . /-» 

gress. dent Johnson furious against Congress. He 

declared that it had no more right to keep a State out of 
the Union than the States had to secede from the Union, 
His bitterness increased until it led him to lose all sense 
of dignity and propriet}'' as he gave expression to his violent 

'This amendment did for the whole United States what the Emancipation Pioc- 
lamation did for the seceded States. 

* Johnson's plan of restoring the seceded States was similar to that outlined by 
Lincoln in his " Presidential Theory " of reconstruction. 



RECONSTRUCTION DAYS 359 

feelings. In a short time he turned his party in Congress 
against him. As they numbered two-thirds of both the 
Senate and the House they could enact any laws they 
pleased, in spite of the President's veto. Johnson soon ac- 
cused them of keeping out the Southern representation for 
this specific purpose. But the more he accused, the more 
solid became the ranks of the Republicans opposed to him. 
By 1867 Congress had worked out a simple and thorough 
plan of reconstruction which it boldly proceeded to execute. 
By this plan, (i) the Confederate leaders were Two essential 
excluded from voting or holding office until features of the 

t5 * Congressional 

pardoned by Congress, and (2) the freedmen plan. 
were given the ballot. In other words, those who a few 
years before had been slaves were given large influence in 
public affairs, while many of their former masters were left 
without any political power whatever. No seceded State 
could be represented in Congress until it should submit to 
these two conditions. To indicate its submission each State 
was to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.^ 

366. The W^ork of Reconstruction Complete. — It is 
needless to say that the Southern people indignantly op- 
posed these laws. They thought Congress unjust to deny 
the right of suffrage to the most intelligent and influential 
whites, and at the same time to give it to the ignorant 
blacks. But in June, 1868, seven ^ of the States had submit- 
ted, and their representatives were admitted again to Con- 
gress. By January 30, 1871, the work of reconstruction had 
been completed, and all the States were again represented 
in Congress. 

367. Bitter Struggle Between President Johnson and 
Congress (1867-1868). — The President, as we have seen, had 

^ This made the freedman a citizen, declared that the Confederate leaders should 
not fill any public office until pardoned by Congress, and that while the debt of the 
Union should be paid, the debt of the Confederacy should not be paid. Tennessee 
was the first of the Confederate States to accept the Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
Amendments, and Congress voted, July 24, 1866, that she was entitled to repre- 
sentation. 

'These States were Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ala- 
bama, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



360 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

inot agreed with Congress about the plan of reconstruction. 
The quarrel between them grew more bitter. Congress 
■continued to pass measures over his veto, and he con- 
tinued fiercely to attack that body in his speeches. This 
most unfortunate and undignified contest was brought to 
The Tenure of a climax by the Tenure ot Office Act. Up to 
OHiceAct. ^i^^t tinie [I iT^fi i^een held that, while the 

President could appoint no high officials without the Senate's 
approval, he could remove them at his pleasure. But in 
March, 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, pro- 
viding that the President should not, without the consent 
•of the Senate, remove any office-holder whose appointment 
required the consent of the Senate. In August, during the 
"Congressional recess, Johnson removed from his Cabinet Mr. 
Stanton, Secretary of War, and appointed General Grant to 
•fill the position. When the Senate again met, it refused to 
■sanction Stanton's removal, and General Grant withdrew. 

368. The Impeachment of President Johnson. — The 
President, believing that the Tenure of Office Act was 
•unconstitutional, refused to obey it, and again removed 
"Secretary Stanton, putting General Thomas in his place. 
The House then impeached the President ; that is, it accused 
him of failing to do his duty as the executive head of the 
•nation. He was tried before the Senate, Chief-Justice 
•Chase presiding. As in all cases of impeachment, the Sen- 
ate acted as a high court, a two-thirds vote being necessary 
to secure conviction. More than two-thirds of the Senators 
were Republicans, but seven of them voted for acquittal, 
■making the vote stand thirty-five for conviction and nine- 
teen for acquittal. The President had won by a single 
-vote. 

369. Negro Suffrage and Carpet-bag Rule (1868-1871). 
— Before the work of reconstruction was completed, the 
Tu «, »H Fifteenth Amendment had become a part of 

The negro a freed- ^ 

man, a citizen, the Constitution. The Thirteenth Amend- 
^ndavoter. mcnt (1865) made the negro a freedman, the 

Fourteenth Amendment (1868) made him a citizen, and the 
Fifteenth Amendment (1870) made him a voter. With the 



k£C0N5TRUCTI0N DAYS 361 

right of suffrage in his grasp, his friends hoped that he 
might protect himself against oppression. But he was too 
ignorant to become a voter or lawmaker. As a slave he 
had not only been kept in ignorance, but, by his master's 
care for his wants, had been deprived of all sense of respon- 
sibility. One could hardly expect that all at once he would 
become an intelligent voter. 

The whites tried by bribes and other means to keep the 
negroes away from the polls. When mild means failed, vio- 
lence was used. As a natural result there was great disor. 
der. The negroes were joined by a small number of white 
men, some of whom were adventurers from the North, 
called " carpet-baggers " because they were Qreat disorder, 
said to have brought all their possessions in heavy taxes, and 
their carpet-bags, and others were Southern •'^'"^'^^• 
men, called " scalawags" and despised as traitors by the 
South. Doubtless many of these white men were honest in 
their convictions, but some of them used the blacks as 
tools for their own political advancement. The Legislatures 
made bad laws and levied heavy taxes upon property owned 
mostly by the whites, who could not vote. Vast sums of 
money were wasted or stolen, and State debts were enor- 
mously increased. 

370. The Ku-Klux Klan (1868-1871).— Naturally, men 
of property and intelligence resented these unjust prac- 
tices and determined to put a stop to them. At first the 
whites used peaceable means, and soon got control in some 
of the States. But in others, especially where the blacks 
were in a majority, the whites were not so successful. In 
those States attempts were made to terrify the freed men. 
Much of this terrorizing w\is done under the name of a 
secret society called the • Ku-Klux Klan, which existed 
throughout the South. 

It was at first a sort of police organized by the young 
men of Tennessee as a pleasurable means of keeping the 
negroes under control by working upon their superstitions. 
Its members wore hideous masks and disguises, and did 
much of their work at night. As disorder increased, 

27 



362 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



"dens," or Ku-Klux societies, multiplied, especially in those 
States where the blacks were in a majorit}'. Usually the 
Brutal method* knowledgc that a "den" was organized in 
of the Ku-Kiux the viciuity was enough to terrify the negroes 
*"'""• into submission. When that was not sufficient 

the Ku-Klux Klan, or men who pretended to belong to the 
society, began to whip, maim, and even murder the freedmen 
and their white Republican friends. Finally, law-abiding 








w 



The Horrible Sfpnl-hri »nd Bloody MooO hiu at lajit «m'»eil. 
«ome liv« to-diy to-morrow •• Du-r Wo the UDdernigned andersland through ou» 
Onind •• GydtrjW that yon have recommended a big Black Nigger for Male agrot «n 
«iir DU rode ; wel, «ir, Jeat you understaad in time if he gets on the rode joi\ can 
nuike up your mind to pull roape. IT von have any thing to say iu'regard to th« 
^"*l'' "is?! ""* ^"^^ Cyclops aud Conclave at Den No. 4 at 13 o'clock midnight,. 

"When, you are in Calera we ware von to hold yonj tounge ^d not«p«ak ao mncb 
with yoor month or otherwise you uill he taken on suppriEe and led out by the Wan. 
and Jeamt to etretcb hemp. Beware. Bcnart Bewore. Beware. 

liisned) -PHILUP BENBACM, 

"Grand Cytlff^ 
"JOHN BANKSTOWN 
"BSAH DAV15K. 
"MARCOS THOMAS. 
„„ ^ -BLOODY BOXES. 

r<M know oho. And all otheza of the Kiait.'* 

A KU-KLUX "warning" IN MISSISSIPPI. 



citizens of both parties, aided by the National Government, 
united to put down the disorder, and by the close of 1871 
had succeeded. 

371. Presiderat Grant Sends Troops to the South.— 
The reconstructed governments, which were in the hands of 
the negroes, assisted by their white friends, appealed to 
President Grant^ for national troops to help them secure 

* Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877), was 
born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, in 1822, and died at Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, 
New York, in 1885. He was the oldest of six children, and in his boyhood helped 
his father in the work of the farm. The name given him by his parents was Hiram 
Ulysses. On receiving his cadetship at West Point, however, he found that his 
name had been inserted in the official appointment as Ulysses S. Although Cadei 
Grant informed the authorities at West Point of the mistake, thcv did not rectify it. 



RECONSTRUCTION DAYS 



3(^3 



order. These were sent, but before 1877 the whites had 
gained control in all but three States, South Carolina, Flori- 
da, and Louisiana. The presence of bayonets unsatisfactory 
in aid of the reconstructed governments iiad Results of Re. 
greatly irritated the Southern whites, who had '^»"«t'"<="«"- 
thus been prevented from getting complete political control. 
The North did not clearly understand the situation, and 
the South found it hard to yield to the changed conditions. 
There was a great effort made on each side to do the best 
thing under the circumstances, but the obstacles were un- 
usually great. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. What perplexing questions called for answers at the close of the 

war? It was a trying time for the new President. Can you tell 
, what his peculiar political views were? 

2. What steps did he take to restore the seceded States ? What three 

votes were the State conventions required to pass before the se- 
ceded States could be restored to their places in the Union? Re- 
member that these things were done between the time when John- 
son became President (April 15, 1865) and the meeting of Congress 
in December of the same year. 

3. Before the meeting, however, w^hat laws were passed by Southern 

Legislatures, and with what effect ? Why, then, did Congress refuse 
to admit representatives and senators from the seceded States ? 

4. What were the two essential features of the Congressional plan of 

reconstruction? 

5. You will observe the increasing bitterness of the disagreement be- 

tween Johnson and Congress. What was the Tenure of Office Act ? 
Why did Congress impeach the President? Which do you think 
had the right attitude toward the Tenure of Office Act, the Presi- 
dent or Congress ? Give reasons for your answer, 

6. What effect did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amend- 

ments have upon the political condition of the negro? What kind 
of voter and law-maker did he make ? What was the Ku-Klux 
Klan? 

7. Note the dates, 1865-1871, of this reconstruction period and bear in 

mind the fact that Andrew Johnson was President nearly four of 

His name ever after remained Ulysses S. He was inaugurated as President March 
4, 1869. At the close of his first term he was re-elected. After retiring from 
public life he made a tour of the globe, and received distinguished attention wher« 
ever he went 



3^4 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

these years. His administration was, in some ways, as critical as 
that of President Lincoln during the Civil War, 1861-1865. These 
two groups of dates are important enough for you to know them 
accurately. 
8. Read the pages of McCulioch's Men and Measures of Half a Century 
that refer to the difficult problem of reconstruction. 



CHAPTER XX 

THE NEW SOUTH (1877- ) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, V.; An- 
drews's United States, II.; Andrews' Last Quarter Century, I,; Wilson's 
Division and Reunion ; Richardson's History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Wilson's A History of the American People, V.; 
Grady's New South; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia; Cyclopedic Review of 
Current History; various magazine articles; the IVorld and the Tn'teM^ almanacs, 
each issued annually. 

372. President Hayes Withdraws the Troops from the 
South (1877). — When Hayes* became President many of the 
problems of reconstruction remained still unsolved. He 
nevertheless withdrew the Federal troops from the South, 
leaving the Southern people to settle their difficulties alone. 
This was a wise measure, for, as long as Federal bayonets 
were employed in the South, Southern men were kept in 
a state of irritation against the Federal government. The 
Republican governments in the South had been supported 
by Federal troops, but as soon as they were withdrawn the 
Democrats got control. The South was now "solid"; that 
is, the solid white ^ vote was in control and was Demo- 
cratic. 

* Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States (1877-1881), 
was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, and died in Fremont, Ohio, 1893. After 
graduating from Kenyon College he studied law at Harvard University. Entering 
the Union army during the Civil War, his gallantry and meritorious service led to 
his promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1865 he resigned his commission 
because he had been elected to represent his district in Congress. Three times he 
was elected governor of Ohio. His popularity in that great State had alarge influ- 
ence in securing his nomination by the Republicans for the Presidency. 

* Only a small fraction of the whites joined the negroes in voting the Republican 
ticket. 

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366 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



373. Eads and the Mississippi Jetties (1879). — Hayes's 
administration was fortunate enough to accomplish a great 
engineering achievement of vast importance to the South. 
The Mississippi River brings down large quantities of mud 
which, in its natural course, it deposits when its current 
The mud bars at becomcs slowcr OH reaching the Gulf of Mex- 
the mouth of the ico. Thcsc dcposits fill up the channel at the 
Mississippi. mouth of the river, thereby preventing the 

passage of heavy ships. Formerly these mud bars were a 
great hindrance to the shipping industry of this great sea 
port of the Southwest, and many mill- 
ions were expended both by the United 
States Government and Louisiana for 
the removal of the bars and the deep- 
ening of the channel ; but the work was 
not successful. 

In 1874 Captain James B. Eads. an 
engineer who had built the magnificent 
steel bridge spanning the Mississippi 
River at St. Louis, proposed a different 
plan. He had noticed that where the 
river was narrow and the current swift 
the channel was also deep. He be- 
lieved, therefore, that by narrowing the 
river at the mouth a deeper, swifter 
current could be secured, which by its natural force would 
Captain Eads make and keep the channel free from ob- 

proposesthe structiug dcposits. Hencc he proposed the 

"jetty system.'' " jctty system," which had been in use in 
Europe for more than a century. 

Captain Eads met with great opposition, but Congress 
finally allowed him (1875) to make a trial of his plan on one 
Success of the of the Smaller mouths. In the contract time, 
P'»"- four vears, he succeeded in all he had planned to 

do, and made the channel deep enough to float the heavi- 
est steamships as far up the river as New Orleans. This was 
a gigantic undertaking, but its success has brought great 
increase of wealth both to New Orleans and the country at 
larsre. 




RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 



THE NEW SOUTH 



367 



Cotton. 



374. The New South. — As the South became politically 
peaceful her industries took a new start. We have al- 
ready noted that before the war the Southern people be- 
lieved that slavery was necessary for the cultivation of 
their staples, especially cotton. Statistics since 
the war show us how greatly they erred in 
this belief. The largest cotton crop under slavery was 
about four and a half million bales (i860); in 1900 it was 
more than ten million bales. The South furnishes about 
five-sevenths of the 
worH's »-upply of 
cotton. The Dnited 
States exported dur- 
ing the tiscai year 
ending June 30, 1903, 
raw cotton valued at 
more than $316,000,- 
000, and supplied our 
own mills with near- 
ly two-sevenths as 
much. We must re- 
member, too, that 
this is in spite of the 
fact that much labor 
has been turned in 
other directions. 

The South is no 
longer exclusively 
devoted to agriculture. There is scarcely an industry com- 
«rion to other parts of the country which has not been taken 
up there. Before the war there were very few 
railroads, the great network of rivers forming 
natural highways for trade, except in mountainous regions. 
But since the war railroads have spread in every direction, 
and hundreds of mills and factories have sprung up. 

It is not too much to say that the South promises to be- 
come uns''~pnssed in the production of manufactured goods. 
It has been jTcdicted that the mountainous area including 




EADS BRIDGE OVKR THE MISSISSIPPI AT ST. LOUIS. 
Copyright, ic^oj, by Underwood ip' Underwood, New York. 



Railroads. 



368 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Manufacturing. 



southern Tennessee, northern Alabama, and northern Geor- 
gia, may in time take tlic lead of the world in tiic produc- 
tion of iron and steel. It is of great advan- 
tage to the factories in this region that their 
raw materials, cotton, iron, coal, and lumber, are close to 
the manufacturing centres. 

The mountains of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia 
Natural mineral fumish rich mineral products, including the 
resources. fincst marble in the country and extensive 

coal-fields. It is estimated that at the present rate of con- 




A COTTON PRESS YARD, NEW ORLEANS. 



sumption these coal-fields could supply the world for one 
hundred and fifty years. 

Since 1880 the development of the new South has been 
almost as remarkable as that of the West. Northern capi- 
Prosperityin tal has flowcd in; the energies of Southern 
thesoutb. men, held in check under the system of sla- 

vcr}^ have been directed to new industries; and the better 
class of negroes, forced to depend upon themselves, have 
worked harder and to better advantage. The South is no 
longer sectional. Her industries are varied; her interests 
and feelings are national. Nowhere does loyalty to the 
Union find more sincere expression than in the South. 

375. The New Orleans Cotton Centennial (1884). — The 
impjoved state of the South, under the new conditions, was 



THE NEW SOUTH 



369 



particularly evidenced in 1884 by a great exhibition. In 
that year a Cotton Centennial was held at New Orleans, to 
commemorate the first shipment of cotton from the United 
States. In 1784 eight bags were shipped from Charleston, 
South Carolira; in 1884 nearly four million bales were ex- 
ported from our country. Two millions of these were sent 
from New Orleans, which had become the most important 
cotton port in the world. 

This Centennial Exposition was a striking revelation of 
the vast changes that had been taking place in New Orleans 



iV'f''. ■■■■■■) 





since the close of the war. In i860 it was mainly a commer- 
cial city. Twenty-four 3'ears later it had noc only become 
a great railroad centre, but had an immense NewOrieans 

capital invested in various kinds of manufac- in 1884. 

turing and an export trade ranking second only to that of 
New York city. Its trade with foreign countries has been 
vastly increased by the construction of the Mississippi 
jetties. 

376. The Atlanta Exposition (1895). — Another evidence 
of the changes wrought in the industries of the South was 
the Cotton States and International Exposition, held at 
Atlanta, Georgia, in the autumn of 1895. To make a suc- 
cessful exhibit so soon after the World's Columbian Expo- 
sition (1893) was a daring enterprise, but in beautv, extent, 



37° 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




STATE BUILDINGS, ATLANTA, GA. 



and significance, the result fully justified the attempt. The 
Exposition at Atlanta was a great object-lesson to the coun- 
try at large of the wonderful natural resources of the South, 
the variety of its manufactured products, the skill of its 
workmanship, and the surprising advance made by the 
negroes. 

377. The Freedmen and Education (1865- ). — We 
hear much said about the race problem in the South, but 
education is slowly finding a way out of the difficulty. 
Since the war the South has spent about $125,000,000 upon 
negro education, the Southern whites having cheerfully 
taxed themselves to give the blacks a start in life. The 
North, also, has contributed generously for the same pur- 
pose. The fund of $3,500,000 given by George Peabody 
for education in the South, and $1,000,000 given by John F. 
Slater for educating the freedmen in the South, aided by 
the immense work done by various religious denominations 
ot the North, are causing rapid changes in the social and 
political conditions of that region. 

Then, too, such institutions as Hampton School (Hamp- 
ton, Virginia), Fiske University (Nashville), and Tuskegee 



THE NEW SOUTH 37* 

Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee, Alabama) are 
giving- young colored men and women the training best 
suited to make them leaders among their industrial proz- 
people in all parts of the South. In 1865 ressofihe 
the freedmen had no propertj^ ; the colored *''eedmen. 
people in the whole country now have over $500,000,000 
worth. This fact shows that the former slaves have made 
marvellous progress industrially. And the industrial train- 
ing that the normal schools for the colored people are now 
giving will still better prepare the freedmen to make intel- 
ligent use of their opportunities. 

TO THE PUPIL 

I. Note the dates of the period you are now beginning to study, 1877- 
1913. Grant was President in 1869-1877. Can you give in order the 
Presidents and the dates of their administrations, up to the time of 
Hayes's administration ? Do not fail to learn them. 

I. Why did President Hayes w^ithdraw the Federal troops from the 
South ? Do you think his action was wise ? Give reasons for your 
answer. What is meant by the " solid South " ? 

3. What changes ha<re been wrought in New Orleans since the war ? 

4. In studying the important paragraph headed The Nev7 South, note 

the sub-topics — cotton, railroads, manufacturing, natural mineral re- 
sources. By a careful study of these sub-topics you will see clearly 
how different is the New South without slavery from the Old South 
with slavery. What has been done for the education of the freedmen, 
and with what results ? 



CHAPTER XXI 

THE NEW WEST (1S65- '• 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, V.; 
\ndrews's United States, II.; Andrews's Last Quarter Century, 1. and II.; 
Wilson's Division and Reunion ; Richardson's History of our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Appleton's Annual CyclopEedia; Cyclopaedic 
Review of Current History; various magazine articles; the IVorlJ and the 
Tribune almanacs, each issued annually. 

378. Population and Immigration. — ^A reference to the 
table of population for the United States/ according to the 
census taken every ten years, from 1790 to 1910, will show 
that the increase has been exceedingly rapid. In 1900 the 
population was 75,568,686. In 1910 it was 91,972,266, mak- 
ing the rate of increase since 1900 more than one and one* 
half millions a year. 

A comparison of the table of population with the table 
of immigration will show that since i860 a large part of 
the increase has been due to immigration. From 1820 to 



1790 3.929.214 

1800 5,308,483 

1810 7,239,881 

1820 9.633.822 

1830 12,866,020 

1840 17,069,453 

1850 23,191,876 



* POPULATION, I 790-1910 

i860 31,443,321 

1870 38,558,37^ 

1880 50.155.783 

1890 62,622,250 

1900 75,568,686 

1910 *9i,972,266 



IMMIGRATION, 1820-1910 



*82o-i840 750,949 

I84I-1850 1,713.251 

185I-1860 2,598,214 

1861-187O 2,466,752 

187I-1880 2,944,695 



1881-1S9O. 
189I-I9OO. 
I9OI-I9IO. 



5,238,728 
3,687,564 
8,796,308 



17,722,600 



Total, 1820-1910. . 28,196,461 



10,473,861 

♦Total population of the U. S. and possessions is estimated to be about voi, 100,000 

372 



THE NEW WEST 



373 



igio more than 28,000,000 foreign immigrants came to the 
United States. In the decade preceding the last census 
{1901-1910) the number reached over eight immigration 

and a half millions, and during the years 1881- ^•"'^^ '**®* 

1910 immigrants swarmed into the United States at an aver- 
age rate of nearly 600,000 a year; that is, nearly two-thirds 
of all the foreign immigration since 1820 came into this 
country during the last three census decades. 

It is estimated that the better classes of immigrants 
brought with them an average of at least $80 apiece, mak- 
ing a very large sum in the aggregate. If we add to this 
sum their power to produce wealth by their vaiueofimmi- 
work, their contribution to the nation's wealth grants to the 
will be found to be enormous. Without for- ^""'** ^'"*''' 
eign immigrants, a large part of whom were skilled labor- 
ers when they came and have made valuable citizens, it 
would have been impossible to develop the resources and 
increase the wealth of the country so rapidly. 

But within the past thirty years the general char- 
acter of the immigrants has not been so good as formerly, 
the average of intelligence and m^orals being much lower 
than it was before that time. The worst elements among 
them, including paupers and criminals, become a burden 
upon society and seriously tax the strength of our republi- 
can institutions. 

379. Influence of the Public Lands on our National 
Growth.— The foundation for our 'extraordinary national 
growth and increase in population has been the vast area 
of the public lands. These have been sold for very small 
sums in order to get them into the hands of the people, 
who have speedily brought them under cultivation. 

At first it was the policy of the government to sell 
these lands in order to increase the pubhc revenue, but it 
was afterward thought wiser to use them for the purpose 
of developing the wealth and increasing the population of 
the country. In 1841, by what is called the pre-emption* 

' Pre-emption gives the settler the first right of purchase as against the investor 
or speculator, 



374 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



system, Congress began to sell farms on the public lands 
The pre-emption at the low price of $1.25 an acre. This was 
system. upon condition that the purchaser would oc- 

cupy and cultivate the land. 

Easy as these terms were, more liberal ones were de- 
sired. The growing sentiment in the West was that the 
The Homestead land bclongcd to the people and that the 
'^'"- United States should grant free homes on the 

public domain. Finally, after much del)ate, Congress passed 
in 1862 the Homestead Bill, which is still in operation. 




A CRIPPLE CREEK MINE. 



This enables settlers to secure farms of one hundred and 
sixty acres free of payment, except a small fee for legal ex- 
penses, on condition of settlement. This method has proved 
very successful in establishing homes and communities, 
thus increasing the value of the lands and the strength of 
the nation. 

380. Westward Expansion.— American history has been 
largely the history of westward movement from the /itlan- 
tic to the Pacific. At the close of the Revolution (178,2) the 
area of settlement was confined, for the most part, h tveen 
the Alleghanies and the Atlantic. By 1825 it had n ached 
the Mississippi, by 1850 the INIissouri,^ and by 1890 th? 

*The gold-mining region of California is not here taken into accoj.it. 



THE NEW WEST 



375 



Pacific coast.* We thus see that the westward movement 
was at first slow, requiring about one hundred and fifty 
years to reach the Alleghanies. 

But after 1825 it was wonderfully rapid. This marvel- 
lous expansion was in a large measure due to the opening of 
the prairies, which were easily brought under The opening of 
cultivation because they were almost free from *•'*' prairies, 
trees. In the forest-covered regions farther ea.st, from forty 
to fifty days' labor was required to clear an acre of land for 




A REAPER. 



tillage, but only three or four days per acre were required 
in the prairie region. Moreover, the soil was rich and fer- 
tile and needed little cultivation. 

Another reason why people flocked to the West was be- 
cause of the great improvement in farm machinery. The 
McCormick Reaper (p. 264), which came into use about 
i860, had a large influence. Drawn by two Reaping and 

horses, it could do as much as twenty men threshing 

using the "cradle." Yet it was but a beginning. machines. 

The reaper was followed by the self-binder, which not only 
cut the grain but bound it into sheaves. The self-binder gave 
place to the steam-driven thresher, and that in turn to the 
combined reaper and iliresher. This complcK rnnrhine. 
which is in general use on the vast wneai famis^ of the 
Northwest, is eitlier drawn by horses to the number of thirty 
or more, or propelled by steam. It cuts, threshes, cleans, 

* In i88g North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington were ad- 
mitted to the Union, in 1890 Idaho and Wyoming, in 1896 Utah, and in 1907 Okla- 
homa, making the number of States in the Union forty-six. 

* The wheat farms in the Red River Valley vary in size from 4,000 to 1 2,00c 
acres, but in recent years the tendency has been to cut up these large farms into 
smaller ones. 



276 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

and measures the grain, and puts it into bags. Tended by 
four men, it will cut 3,000 bushels in a day. 

Almost equally noteworthy was the change of method in 
breaking up the soil before planting or sowing the grain. 
The cast-iron plow, which could be drawn by a single horse, 
The steam- was an advance upon the wooden mold-board 

driven gang-plow. Qf colonial days. But the pressing need for 
something better on the large farms of the West led to the 
invention of the steam-driven gang-plow. The one com- 
monly used will turn twelve furrows at one time and will 
plow in a ten-hour day from thirty-five to forty-five acres. 




^^^^'^^1^>^'^ 



A STEAM-DRIVEN GANG-PLOW. 



These various causes explain the great waves of migra- 
tion westward, which in turn produced two important re- 
sults: (i) They made labor scarce, and therefore wages 
Results of west- high, in the East; (2) they led to an enormous 
ward migration, fncrcase in food products, and therefore low- 
ered the cost of food. Both of these conditions were of im- 
mense advantage to the workingmen, and they help us to 
realize how much tlie general welfare of the people has 
been increased by the settlement and cultivation of the 
western part of the country. 

381. The Mormons.— Among the many settlers of the 
West was a religious people who- wished to enjoy their 
forms of worship and social customs without hindrance. 



THE NEW WEST 



377 



In 1839 the main body of these people, under the leader- 
ship of Joseph Smith, a native of Vermont, settled at Com- 
merce, Illinois, and built up the city of , ^^ ..^ 

~ . ' , . , ^ . •' . Joseph Smith. 

Nauvoo. Smith claimed to receive revela- 
tions from God, and to have discovered the Book of 
Mormon, which, according to his teaching, is a religious 
record of prehistoric America, containing the pure Gospel 
of Christ. He was the founder of the Church of the Latter- 
day Saints, otherwise known as Mormons. They prospered 
at Nauvoo, but had trouble with some of the other people 
of Illinois, and their leader fell a victim to mob violence. 
Owing to these troubles with their neighbors, the Mormons 




A THRESHER. 



" ■■■'-^\wfw^0'-' -■■ 



went into the wilderness to find a place where they could live 
in peace and safety and in accordance with their own beliefs. 

Under their new prophet, Brigham Young, they soon 
after emigrated to the desert region of Salt Lake valley. 
There the ]Mormons prospered. With com- Thrift of the jwor. 
mendable industry and thrift they transformed """"^ '" ^''^''• 
the desert, by irrigation, into fertile land, and soon built Salt 
Lake City. ]Much credit is due to them for the rich culti- 
vation under which they brought the surrounding land. 

382. The Pacific Coast and Chinese Immigration. — 
A less desirable increase of population came from the far 
East, at first in comparatively small numbers, but at length 



28 



378 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

in such large bodies as to cause a gen-^ral demand for re- 
pressive measures. These people were the Chinese. In 
1888 the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to prevent 
the further immigration inl., the United States of Chinese 
laborers. Although at that time not more than 100,000 Chi- 
nese were in the United States. 75,000 of whom were in 
California, the American people, especially those on the 
Pacific coast, were bitterly opposed to any further Chinese 
Three reasons for immigration. For this opposition there were 
chinesXmi. scvcral rcasons. (i) The Chinese brought no 
gration. famiHcs with them, because they did not intend 

to remain and become citizens; they showed little interest 
in American affairs and almost no inclination to adopt our 
customs. (2) As they lived more meanly than the whites, 
eating little but rice, they could work for lower wages, and 
in this way they greatly injured our laboring men. (3) It 
was feared that in time they might come o\-er in such vast 
hordes as seriously to endanger our institutions. 

383. The Pacific Railroads Furnish the Short North- 
west Passage to China, Japan, and the Indies. — It is 
well to remember that the westward growth of population 
has depended much on easy, cheap, and rapid transporta- 
tion, in which the railroad has played a most important part. 
The first trans-continental railroad, the Union and Central 
Pacific, was completed in 1869. It extended from Omaha, 
Nebraska, to San Francisco, California. Work had been 
progressing upon this road for six years, one party working 
east from San Francisco, the other west from Omaha. 
The parties met at Ogden, Utah. Since that time four 
other Pacific railroads have been built, so that there are 
The five Pacific now fivc great trunk lines connecting the At- 
werraittie. ^^ntic wlth thc Pacific coast. The value of 
ment. thcsc Pacific railroads to the United States 

can hardly be estimated, for they have brought into service 
immense areas of land otherwise of trifling value. Without 
these roads and their network of branches running in all 
directions through the agricultural and mining regions oi 



THE NEW WESl 



379 



the West, the rapid settlements made in the last fifty years 
would have been impossible. 

At the close of the Revolution, Frederick of Prussia de- 
clared that no single republic could be held together in a 
territory so vast as that stretching from Maine to Georgia. 
He believed it would break into sections or give place to a 
monarchy. A like argument was made by a United States 
senator when the Oregon country came under discussion in 
1843. This senator urged that such a far-off land could 
never become an integral part of the United States: that 
it would require ten months out of every twelve for the 
representatives in Congress from a State so remote to go 
to and from Washington, But we can now go The railroad and 
from Oregon to Washington in less time than S' to Safnlin 
John Adams could go from Boston to Phila- the union, 
adelphia in the days of the Continental Congress. Steam 
and electricity, applied to the transportation of men and 




ARTESIAN WELL SYSTEJf, RI\'ERSIDE, CAL. AN -ERATOR IN THE FOREGROUND. 



goods and the transmission of thought, enable us to main- 
tain a republic over an area of vast extent. It is difficult 
to see how the North, the South, the East, and the West, 
with their widely differing interests, could be held together 
in one great Union without the raihoad and the telegraph. 
But the effects of the Pacific railroads on international 



?So 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



trade, also, have been striking. Americans in the nineteenth 
century have found what Europeans so eagerly sought in 
the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries — a short 
A short route to nortliwest passagc to China, Japan, and the 
China andjapan. £a,st Indics. Formerly, vessels with tea from 
China and spices from the East Indies sailed around Cape 
Horn and reached our eastern coast after a five or six 
months' voyage. Now cargoes of these products are 
brought to San Francisco and reshipped by rail to New 
York, the whole distance being covered in fi\e or six 
weeks. The Paciiic railroads have thus not only shortened 
the journey between Asia and the United States, but have 
reduced the cost of goods by diminishing freight charges. 

384. The Arid Region and the Problem of Irrigation. — 
With the extension of facilities for transportation the 




AN IRRIGATED ORANGE GRG^'E, RIVERSIDE, CAI. 



rapidly increasing population of the country began to turn 
to the districts tliat yet remained unoccupied. Under the 
Homestead Eaw nearly all the fertile land of the West, 
in regions of sufficient rainfall for agriculture, has been 



THE NEW WEST 381 

taken up by settlers.* But there is a great district which is 
barren until it is improved by irrigation. This arid and 
semi-arid region extends from the looth meridian west- 
ward to a belt of country lyjng within about two hundred 
miles from the Pacific coast. It includes the whole of 
Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and 
New Mexico, and parts of Washington, Oregon, Califor- 
nia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan- 
sas, and Texas. This vast region contains at least 1,000,000 
square miles, or an area equal to more than two hundred 
States like Connecticut. The soil is of great depth, and is 
exceedingly fertile when watered by irrigating canals and 
ditches.^ Professor Shaler estimates that the area of this im- 
mense arid region which may be won to tillage by irrigation 
is probably not more than ten States like Connecticut. 

385. Forest Reservations. — ^Under authority from Con- 
gress President Harrison withdrew from public sale 18,- 
000,000 acres of forest-covered public lands. The move- 
ment in the direction of forest preservation is exceedingly 
important, because forests hold water in the ground and let 
it drain off gradually. They thus influence the volume of 
water in rivers, and therefore greatly aid irrigation. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Why did our government, from the first, sell the public lands at very 

low prices ? What was the Homestead Bill ? 

2. Trace on your map the advance of Western settlement and note the 

marvellous expansion due to the opening of the prairies. 

3. What objections have been urged against Chinese immigration? 

What do you think of these objections? W^hat influence has the 
building of the Pacific railroads had upon trade with China, Japan, 
and the Indies ? Upon Western settlement ? In this connection re- 
■^ew ttie pack-horse, the flat-boat, the steamboat, the national road, 
and the Erie Canal. 

4. Trace on your map the arid region and show what connection irriga- 

tion has with it. How many States like your own could be included 
in this region ? 

* Areas of fertile land still open to settlement are found in the forest regions of 
northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, and in those west of the Cascade Mountains in 
Oregon and Washington, 

- Irrigation has been successfully introduced into many of the State? of this 
region. 



CHAPTER XXII 

THE NEW UNION (1865) 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, V.; An- 
drews's United States, II.; Andrews's Last Quarter Century, I. and II.; 
Wilson's Division and Reunion ; Richardson's History of Our Country. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Wilson's A History of the American People, V.; 
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia; Cyclopaedic Review of Current History; 
Field's Story of the Atlantic Telegraph; Elliott's Our Arctic Province; McCul- 
loch's Men and Measures of Half a Century ; Bourke's On the Border with 
Crook; Walker's Indian Question; Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress; Stan- 
wood's History of Presidential Elections ; Woodburn's Political Parties and 
Party Problems in the United States ; various magazine articles ; the World and 
the Tribune almanacs, each issued annually. 

386. The Atlantic Cable (1866). — Wc have considered 
in some detail the development of the South and of the 
West. We have now to glance rapidly at some matters 
that concern the nation as a whole. One of the most im- 
portant facts in the history of the country since the close of 
the Civil War is the invention that has made possible the 
instant transmission of thought to the most distant parts of 
the world. In 1858, after several unsuccessful efforts, the 
two continents were connected by a wire cable extending 
from Newfoundland to Ireland. Two ships, each contain- 
ing a section of the cable, met in' mid-ocean, and, having 
^. . ... spliced the sections, returned, the one toward 

The wire cable of r ' ' 

1858 is not sue- Newfoundland and the other toward Irehand, 
cessfui. laying the cable as they went. The two ships 

reached land on the same day, and very soon afterward 
(August 16) the Queen of England sent to the President of 
the United States this message : " Glory to God in the 
highest, peace on earth and good-will to men." But within 

382 



THE NEW UNION 



S^3 




A MIDSHIP VIEW OF THE GREAT EASTERN. SHOWING ONE OF THE PADDLE- 
WHEELS AND THE LAUNCHING GEAR. 

Redraw}! by i>erm{ssion from a copyrighted picture in Gassier s Magazine, 

a month the cable failed to work, and not until 1866 did 
ocean cabling become permanently successful. 

Since that time communication between Europe and 
America has not been interrupted, and now ten lines cross 
the Northern Atlantic. The cable has largely Results of the 
affected commerce, because the market prices Atlantic cabse. 
in the great trade centres of America and Europe are re- 
ported every day, and large business transactions can 
easily be made in a few hours between American and 
European business houses. It has also brought the vari- 
ous parts of the civilized world into closer and more 
sympathetic relations, because the news of what is going 
on is so readily sent across the ocean. Our daily papers 
easily report European events a few hours after they have 
occurred. 

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384 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




387. The Purchase of Alaska (1867). — In 1867 our gov- 
ernment gave to Russia $7,200,000 for Alaska, an immense 
territory equal in area to about one hundred and twenty 
States like Connecticut. The purchase was then thought 
by many to be an extravagant waste of the public money, 

because Alaska ap- 
peared to be almost 
worthless. But the 
investment has 
proved to be a good 
one, the seal-fur 
trade alone being 
worth $2,500,000 a 
year. Alaska fur- 
nishes beautifut 
white marble, and 
has mines of coal, iron, and gold of great value. Along 
many ot' the streams are found rich forests, consisting 
Neiu'-aire- mainly of pine and cedar. The fisheries, 

sources oi which include salmon in the rivers and cod 

Ai.Tsi:2. ^^^ halibut on the coast, are extensive. Be- 

sides all these natural resources Alaska has a coast well 
supplied with good harbors. By consulting the table 
below it will be seen that the entire area of the United 
States, exclusive of our island possessions, is now about 
3,600,000 square miles, or nearly the size of all Europe.^ 

388. Grant's Indian Peace Policy (i86g). — The Indians 
had always been more or less troublesome on the frontier, 
and durinof the Civil War the Sioux had committed shock- 



SAMUEL F. B. MORSE S ORIGINAL MODEL OF THE 
TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT. 

From tJie model in the Patent Office, WacMugioK. 



Square Miles. 

* United States, in 1783 827,844 

Louisiana, 1803 1,171,931 

Florida, 181 9 59,268 

Texas, 1845 376,133 

Mexican cession, 1848 545,7^3 

Gadsden purchase, 1853 45,535 

Alaska, 1867 577. 3QO 

Total 3.603.884 



THE NEW UNION 



385 



ing outrages in Minnesota. Half of the expenses of our War 
Department, exclusive of those incurred by the Civil War, 
had been occasioned by Indian wars, and yet Failure of the 
the Indians were not subdued. The war policy war policy, 
had failed, and therefore President Grant wisely adopted a 
peace policy. He had observed that the Cherokees* had 
developed by themselves a good degree of civilization, and 
he believed that by kind 
treatment and education 
the more barbarous 
tribes might be trained 
into good citizenship. 
He therefore entrusted 
the management of a 
few reservations to the 
Society of Friends, with 
whom the Indians had 
always held peaceful re- 
lations. No Indian agent 
was to be appointed for 
these reservations with- 
out the approval of both 
the President and the 
Society. The system gradually extended to other reser- 
vations and to other religious denominations, with some 
success. 

The Indian could not immediately appreciate this new 
policy, however, and within a few years the Modocs (1872) 
and the Sioux (1876) both made outbreaks. There is no 
doubt that the Indian had grievances. He Grievances of 
could not understand why the Great Father the Indians, 
in Washington should allow the white man to invade his 
reservations, as the white man did when he saw in them 
fertile soil and unworked gold mines. But a more crying 
evil was the dishonesty of Indian contractors, who were 
making money by cheating both the government and the 

* The five civilized tribes were the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, 
and Seminoles. Thev all lived on reservations in the Indian Territory. 




R. F. T. ALLEN S ORIGINAL MODEL OF THE 
TYPEWRITER. 

From a model in tlie Patent Office, Washington. 



386 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Indians, and were ready to oppose any plan likely to inter- 
fere with their schemes. 

The government method of reservation was by treaty 
with the various tribes, the government agreeing to give 
yearly, for land yielded by the Indians, a quantity of 
The Indian reser- food, ammunition, and other supplies. The 
vation. food-suppHcs werc to compensate for the loss 

of hunting-grounds, because hunting was the Indian's only 
means of support. Ammunition was to help them in secur- 
ing such gam 3 as their reservations supplied. The govern- 
ment made liberal promises for the comfort, education, and 
civilization of these Indians. 

The reservation system was, however, not successful, 
because under it the Indians were placed by themselves, 

out of contact with 

Why the reserva. the civil- 
tion system failed, jzinc in- 

fluence of the whites. 
Moreover, it was im- 
possible for them to 
develop a spirit of 
m a n I y independence 
when so much was 
done for them. The 
reservation plan made 
the Indian a pauper. 
The "Dawes Act," passed in 1887, provided for indi- 
vidual ownership of land by the Indians. In the course of 
time it is hoped that the individual Indian, like 
the white man, will have his own farm and 
reap the fruits of his own toil. Individual ownership, along 
with industrial training and general education, will aid in 
making him a useful citizen. 

389, The Financial Panic of 1873. — The Indian prob- 
lem, serious as it was, affected a comparatively small part of 
the population. Far different was the trouble that attended 
the financial crash of the year 1873. This panic was much 
like the panics of 1837 and 1857. It was preceded by a 




ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL S ORIGINAL MODKL 
OF THE TELEPHONE RECEIVER AND TRANS- 
MITTER. 

From the model in the Patent Office, Washington. 



The Dawes Act. 



THE NEW UNION 



387 



period of general prosperity, and was brought on by rash 
speculations in Western railroads. For five years railroad 
building had been going on to such an extent speculation in 



that the railroad mileage in the United States 



railroad'buildins 
and Western 
lands. 



had increased one-half.^ This excessive rail 
road building, which was in the West, increased more rap- 
idly than it could receive support from the population. 
Fortunes were made by 
some and lost by others 
in buying up tracts of 
lands in unsettled regions 
and increasing the value 
of that land by extending 
railroads through them. 
The speculative fever be- 
came so high that rail- 
roads were built much 
faster than they were 
needed. 

As in 1857, the failure 
of a single great banking- 
house suddenly brought 
this panic upon the coun- 
try. Financial ruin fell 
upon business firms and 
individuals, and want and 
suffering came into thousands of homes 
before the country fully recovered. 

390. Railroad Strikes (1877). — During the years of finan- 
cial distress following the panic of 1873, the earnings of the 
railroads were much reduced. In 1877 some of the railroads 
in the Middle and Western States lowered the wages of 
their men. Brakemen and other trainmen on the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad and on the Pennsylvania Railroad refused 

' In 1861 only 651 miles of railroad were built ; in 1871 7,779 miles were built. 
The Northern Pacific, extending from Duluth to Puget Sound, was the most impor- 
tant of these roads. During the five years preceding the panic, about $1,700,000,- 
000 were spent in railroad building. 




ELIAS HOWE S ORIGINAL MODEL OF THE 
SEWING MACHINE. 

Front the model in the Patent Office, Washington. 



It was six years 



388 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




OPENING DAY AT THE PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL, 1876. 

to work. Then men on other roads followed their example. 
Soon there were bloody riots at Baltimore and Pittsburg, 
and large mobs in Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities. In 
Pittsburg a mob of 20,000 men had control of the city for 
two days, one hundred lives being lost. The State mi- 
litia and the United States troops united to stop violence, 
but it continued about two weeks. During that time 100,000 
men took part in the strike, which resulted in the destruc- 
tion of ten million dollars' worth of property. 

391. The Centennial Exhibition (1876). — But during 
these years of financial depression and industrial discontent 
the country gave striking evidence of its vast resources by 
holding the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in honor of the 
hundredth anniversary of the founding of the nation. The 
place chosen was Philadelphia, the city in which the Dec- 
laration of Independence was given to the world. This ex- 
hibition taught the people many things. It showed them 
the wonderful results that had been brought about by 



THE NEW UNION 



389 



machinery and invention in all countries. It quickened 
their sympathies and turned their attention toward art. 
But education, especially, received such an what the cen- 
impetus that the good results have steadily tenniai taught 
increased. The Centennial Exhibition also re-' *''«p^°p'*- 
vealed to America, as well as to the rest of the world, the 
richness and the variety of our natural productions and the 
superiority of this country over all others in useful inven- 
tions. Two of the most wonderful of these were the 
telephone* and the application of elec- 
tricity to lighting purposes. 

392. The Electoral Commission and 
the Presidency (1877). — In the Presi- 
dential election of 1876 there were" dis- 
putes about the election returns made 
in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisi- 
ana.2 Hayes, the Republican candidate, 
needed all the electoral ^ , . _^. 

A close election. 

votes from these States to 
secure his election, while Tilden, the 
Democratic candidate, needed only one. 
Florida and Louisiana had given Dem- 
ocratic majorities, but the " returning 
boards," who received the election returns as they came in 
from various parts of the State, were Republican, and threw 
out enough votes, on the charge of intimidation, to make a 
Republican majority. The people were much disturbed, 
and feared there might be serious results. 

The excitement increased as the time drew near for the 
new President to be inaugurated. The Senate being Repub- 
lican and the House Democratic, they could not unite upon 
any plan of seating either of the rival candidates. Finally 
a bill passed both Houses providing that a " Joint High 
Commission" should be appointed, whose decision should 

^ The inventor of the telephone, which came at once into practical use, was 
Alexander Graham Bell, of Massachusetts. The American Bell Telephone Com- 
pany was soon incorporated, and lines rapidly multiplied. 

' There was some dispute about the election in Oregon also. 




SAMUEL J. TILDEiN. 



390 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



be final. The commission included five senators, five rep' 
resentatives, and five justices of the Supreme Court. The 
The "Joint High fitth justicc was appointed by the other four 
Commission." named in the bill. Before the fifth justice 
was appointed, seven of the commission were Republicans 
and seven were Democrats. It was expected that the fifth 
justice would be an independent, but circumstances caused 
a Republican to be selected, thus giving the Republicans a 

majority of one on the commission. 

On March 2, just two days before 
the time set by the Constitution for 
Decision In favor inauguration, the deci- 
of Hayes. sjqq {i^ favor of Haycs 

was published. Opinions were di- 
vided as to the correctness of the 
returns, but whichever candidate was 
elected, the decision of the uncer- 
tain question was final. The people 
throughout the land. Democrats and 
Republicans alike, had shown re- 
markable wisdom and self-control 
during all the months of the trying situation.^ 

393. Resumption of Specie Payment (1879). — The finan- 
cial disturbance of 1873 and subsequent years was partly 
caused by the instability of the currency and the undue en- 
couragement thereby given to speculation. Nobody knew 
exactly how much a dollar was worth or how much it 
was likely to be worth. This condition was unavoidable 
during the Civil War, but it \vas intolerable in a time of 
peace. During the Civil War so much money was needed 
to carry on the extensive military operations that the gov- 
ernment and the banks could not furnish gold and silver 
enough for the unusual demands. Congress, therefore, like 

* To provide tor possible coi.*ested elections in the future the Electoral Count 
Bill was passed in 1887. This nieasure threw the responsibility of Presidential 
elections upon the States, and provided that electoral certificates sent to the national 
capital by the various States should be opened by the president of the Senate in the 
presence of both Houses, and that four tellers, two from each House, should read 
aloud and make record of the votes. 




JAMES A. GARFIELD. 



THE NEW UNION 



391 



the Continental Congress of the Revolution, issued millions 
of dollars of paper currency, which the people used instead 
of gold and silver. These paper notes were Greenbacks dur- 
called greenbacks. As they w^ere "legal ingtheCivu 
tender" — that is, the law declared that they ^"* 
might be used in paying debts — everybody was willing to 
make free use of them. Gold, however, remained the stand- 
ard of value, and the value of the greenbacks depended 




SUPREME COURT ROOM, CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

upon the defeats and victories on the battle-field. When the 
Northern armies won a great victory, the greenbacks i"Ose 
in value; when they met with a severe defeat, the green- 
backs fell in value. While the war was most threatening 
they were worth, in gold, little more than one-third of their 
face value, because the prospect of Northern success was 
very gloomy. 

After the war, when the government began to pay the 
national debt rapidly, people began to have more and more 

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.:*92 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



confidence in these paper promises issued by Congress, and 

the greenbacks steadily rose in value. In 1879 ^^^^ Secre- 

... tarv of the Treasury announced that he would 

Oreenbacks be- -' -' 

come as good as givc S^ld for paper currency if it were pre- 
*'*'*'• sented at the Treasury. This action of the 

Secretary of the Treasury meant the resumption of specie 
payment by the government, and from that time on a paper 
dollar was worth as much as a gold dollar. 

394. Assassination of President 
Garfield 1 (1881) ; Civil Service Re- 
form (1883-1886). — When this impor- 
tant question of the currency w^as set- 
tled, the new administration of Gar- 
field, who was elected in 1880, seemed 
to be opening a new era of prosperity. 
But only a few months after his inaug- 
uration the country was shocked by 
the announcement of his assassination 
(July 2, 1881). The assassin being' a 
disappointed office-seeker, the tragedy 
brought forcibly to the minds of the 
people the great need of civil service 
reform. President Jackson had intro- 
duced the spoils system into the civil service in order to 
reward his political friends. Appointments were not made 




CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 



* James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born at 
Orange, Ohio in 1831, and died September 19, 1881, from 4 wound inflicted by 
a disappointed office-seeker. In early childhood Garfield's pa*;!! was beset with 
difficulties. He was but two years of age when his father died, auu his home, in a 
lonely log-cabin of the backwoods, was one of poverty and hardship. But the boy 
cheerfully helped his mother in supporting the family. After being graduated from 
Williams College he was for a time a college professor, and afterward studied law. 
Owing to his gallantry and daring on the battle-field in the Civil War he was pro- 
moted to the rank of major-general. His term cf service in Congress (1863- 
1880) was so successful that he was elected to the Senate of the United States in 
1880. Before taking his seat, however, he was nominated by the Republicans for 
the Presidency. He was the second President who was assassinated and the fourth 
who died in office. 

* Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first President of the United States (1881-1885), was 
born in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1830, and died in 1886. After being graduated fro» 



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393 



by reason of fitness for the work, but were distributed as 
rewards for political services. 

In 1883 an act was passed by Congress authorizing the 
President to appoint civil service examiners, who should 
test by fair examinations, without regard to Reform in the 
party, the fitness of applicants for office. "*'"' service. 
From the list of those passing the civil service examinations 
appointments and promotions were to be made. In accord- 
ance with this act, during the next 
twenty years about 1 10,000 ofifice- 
holders were put under Rapid growth of 
civil service rules. As the reform, 
a result all Federal officers are now 
under civil service reform rules, 
except two classes: (i) The higher 
officers, including the heads of de- 
partments, and (2) postmasters in 
fourth-class offices.^ 

These 110,000 positions are now 
filled by those who have successfully 
passed the civil service examinations 
without any reference to changes in 
Presidential administrations. The 

spoils system in the Federal civil service has become largely 
a thing of the past. Experience, training, ability — in a 




GKOVER CLEVELAND.' 



Union College he studied law and became a successful lawyer. In 1871 President 
Grant appointed him Collector of the Port of New York. Having been elected 
Vice-President by the Republicans in 1880, he succeeded to the Presidency on the 
death of Garfield. He was the fourth Vice-President who thus became the execu- 
tive head of the nation.' 

^ Of those not yet classified, over 72,000 are postmasters of the fourth class. 
These include postmasters receiving salaries of $1,000 or less a year. 

' Grover Cleveland, twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United 
States (1885-1889 and 1893-1897), was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, in 1837. In 
his earjy childhood the family removed to New York State. Later, he became a 
lawyer and took high rank in his profession. After filling the offices of assistant 
district attorney and sheriff of the county he was elected Mayor of Buffalo. In 
this position he so fearlessly used his veto power that he was called the "veto 
mayor." 

His success as mayor led to his nomination by the Democrats, in 1882, for gov- 



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word, personal fitness to perform the duties of the office — 
are now demanded in our civil service. 

395. The Brooklyn Bridge (1883).— In the same year 
that Congress passed the act for civil service reform, another 
great work affecting the public good was accomplished. 
This was the completion of the Suspension Bridge spanning 
East River and connecting Brooklyn with New York. The 
bridge was sixteen years in building, and cost $16,000,000. 

It is 85 feet wide, and 
is more than a mile 
long, its centre being 
supported by four 
main cables made of 
steel wire nearly 16 
inches in diameter. 
There are five passage- 
ways — two for cable- 
cars, two for drive- 
ways, and a middle 
one for foot-passen- 
gers. In design and 
construction it is a 
most stupendous work 
of engineering. 

396. Presidential 
Succession Act (1886). 
— A great nation like 
this should not be left for a single day without a Pres- 
ident. Congress had already passed a law that in case of 
the death or disability of both President- and Vice-Presi- 
dent, the temporary president of the Senate and, following 
him, the Speaker of the House, should become President. 
But in case either of the last named should be of the oppo- 

ernor of the State of New York, to which office he was elected by an overwhelming 
majority. Owing to his popularity in New York the Ddiocrats nominated him 
for the Presidency in 1884. James G. Blaine was nominated by the Republicans. 
The political campaign was exciting and resulted in Cleveland's election. At the 
close of his first term he was defeated by Benjamin Harrison, but in 1892 he in 
turn defeated President Harrison and became President for a second term. 




BROOKLYN BRIDGE. ONE OF THE LARGEST 
SUSPENSION BRIDGES IN THE WORLD. 

Copyright, Jgor, by Underwood &" Underwood, 
New York. 



THE NEW UNION • 395 

site party, their succession would not represent the choice 
of the people, and the plan was therefore not considered 
satisfactory. In 1886 an act was passed providing that in 
case of the death or disability of both the President and 
Vice-President, members of the Cabinet should, one after 
another, be made Acting President as long as the disability 
existed, or until the next election of a President by the peo- 
ple. The duty would fall first upon the Secretary of State, 
and then upon the other members of the Cabinet in the 
order of establishment of the various departments.^ Such 
members as might in any way be disqualified would be 
passed over. There is scared}^ an emergency now in which 
the country could be left without a President.^ 

397. Knights of Labor. — We have already noted (see 
par. 390) the great railroad strike of 1877. Within ten 
years there were many similar troubles between working- 
men and their employers. In order to strengthen them- 
selves for a struggle with employers the workingmen 
formed large organizations, one of which, the Knights of 
Labor, contained many thousand members and exerted a 
large influence all over the country. • The members of the 
organization, calling themselves union men, would suddenly 
quit work, or strike, when they wished to force their em- 
ployers to grant them higher wages or shorter hours. The 
employers, in turn, united against the work- Black lists and 
ingmen by making out " black lists," contain- boycotting, 
ing the names of the more influential union men, whom 
the employers would, from that time forward, refuse to em- 
ploy. The workingmen sometimes resorted to "boycot- 
ting," which was refusing to have any business relations 

*The order in which the various Cabinet positions were created was: (i) Sec- 
retary of State, 1789; (2) Secretary of the Treasury, 1789; (3) Secretary of War, 
1789; (4) Attorney-General, 1789; (5) Postmaster-General, 1789; (6) Secretary 
of the Navy, 1798; (7) Secretary of the Interior, 1849; (8) Secretary of Agri- 
culture, 1889; (9) Secretary of Commerce and Laboi;, 1903. 

* President Garfield died in September, nearly three months before Congress as- 
sembled, and during the intervening period President Arthur was critically ill. 
Had he died at that time there might have been some confusion in the administra- 
tion of the government. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



with the man they wished to injure, either by using any 
goods he had manufactured or by handling them even for 
transportation. In most cases both parties gained Httle by 
their unfortunate attempts to injure each other. 

398. The Statue of Liberty (1886). — In pleasing con- 
trast with these serious labor troubles was an international 

event that took place in New 
York City in 1886. This was 
the unveiling of the enormous 
statue of " Liberty Enlight- 
ening the World," which was 
given by Frenchmen to the 
people of the United States 
as an expression of friendly 
feeling toward our countr}'. 
The statue cost more than 
$200,000 and was paid for by 
100,000 Frenchmen. It was 
placed on Bedloe's Island — 
now called Liberty Island — in 
New York Bay. The height 
of the statue is 151 feet and 
of the pedestal 155 feet. 

399. Oklahoma Opened to 
Settlement (1889). — The rapid 
growth of population west- 
ward began at last to press 
upon the Indian reservation. 
That part of Indian Territory 
called Oklahoma was a large 
and fertile stretch of country 
especially coveted by white 
settlers. The United States therefore finally purchased it 
from the Indians in 1889, and President Harrison, by proc- 
lamation, declared it open to settlement. By nightfall of 
the day of occupation (April 22, 1889) several thousand 
persons had staked out their claims in Guthrie and had 
taken steps to form a city government. Before the year 




THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN NEW 
YORK HARBOR. 



THE NEW UNION 397 

came to a close the territory had nearly or quite 60,000 
people, 8,000 of whom were in Guthrie and Rapid growth of 
5,000 in Oklahoma City. The population of Oklahoma. 
Oklahoma in 1900 was 398,331. In 1907 this territory and 
Indian Territory were admitted into the Union as one State, 
Oklahoma. 

400. Pension Bill (1890). — In 1890 Congress passed a 
Pension Bill which was very liberal to the soldiers and sail- 
ors injured in defending the Union during the Civil War. 
In accordance with this measure the government paid in 
pensions, to the close of 1903, more than $137,000,000 a year, 
on an average. This sum will be diminished gradually as our 
veterans pass away. No other nation has ever before been 
so liberal to its soldiers and sailors, nor has any other na- 
tion, with the possible exception of Germany, ever had in 
its service an army and navy ranking so high in intelligence 
and fighting ability. Well may we be proud of American 
manhood as it was seen on the battle-fields of this war. 

401. The Pan-American Congress (1889-1890). — The 
attention of the people of this country during the past 
generation has naturally been given, for the most part, to 
questions of internal polity and development. But ques- 
tions of wider import have now and then been brought 
to the front. The relations of this country to the coun- 
tries of South America present a still unsettled problem. 
More than one American statesman has cherished the hope 
of bringing about closer relations and more friendly feel- 
ings between the United States and the leading independent 
countries of North and South America. Hence our gov- 
ernment invited these countries to send representatives 
to a congress to meet at Washington. 

The invitation was accepted, and the Pan-American 
Congress was held in the autumn of 1889. Seventeen coun- 
tries were represented by sixty-six members. Questions 
concerning closer business relations and bet- what the Ran- 
ter means of communication between the American con- 
various countries represented in the Con- gfessdid. 
gress were discussed. But by far the most important work 
of the Pan-American Congress was its recommendation 



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HISiORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



that the republics of North, Central, and South America 
should settle by arbitration all disputes and difficulties 
that might arise among them. 

402. Trouble with Italy (1890) and with Chili (1891). — 
The desirability of a system of arbitration with foreign 
Assassination of countries was made suddenly and painfully 
the New Orleans evident. In 1890, on the failure of the jury to 
Chief of Police. convict somc Italians on trial for assassinating 
the New Orleans Chief of Police, a party of Ij'uchers, in- 
dignant at this failure of justice, broke into the jail and 
Three Italian put to death elevcu Italian prisoners. As 

citizens lynched, thrcc of thcsc mcu wcrc Italian citizens there 
was serious trouble with Italy over the lynching ; but 
through our able Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, a 
satisfactory settlement was reached when our government 
agreed to pay $25,000 to the families of the murdered men. 

Equally unexpected and unwelcome was the complica- 
tion with Chili. In 1891, in the streets of Valparaiso, a mob 



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399 




HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

attacked ^ some sailors from the American warship Balti- 
more, killing two of them and wounding eighteen others. 
When the United States demanded satisfaction, Chili dis- 
avowed the act and agreed to pay damages to our govern- 
ment. 

403. Our New Navy (1883- ). — These various diffi- 
culties with foreign nations showed the need of a more 
powerful navy. During the twenty years succeeding the 
Civil War nothing was done to build up or Need of a ,iew 
maintain our navy. The ships that had served n^yy- 
during the war had either been disposed of or had gradu- 
ally become useless through age. Such a navy could af- 
ford but small protection to our commerce and extensive 
sea-coast, and was unworthy of a great nation like the 
United States. 



' A revolution having broken out in Chili, our Minister there took sides with 
the Chilian president. Moreover, a Chilian cruiser had been seized in a port of 
California because she was thought to be on the point of sailing with a supply of 
arms for the revolutionists. Hence the anger of the Chilian mob. 

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400 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

Finally, people began to realize its worthlessness and 
took measures to improve its condition. Accordingly, in 
1883 Congress authorized the building of four steel cruis- 
The strength of crs. This was a beginning. Since that time 
our navy. Other cruiscrs of great strength and speed, 

and battle-ships of immense power, have been brought into 
use. The cruisers are for the protection of our commerce 
and the destruction of the enemy's com- 
merce in case of war. 

404. The Australian Ballot System 
Introduced into Most of the States 
(1888-1892).— By the year 1888 pubhc 
opinion demanded a sweeping reform 
in the methods of voting at State and 
Demoralizing national clcctions. Votes 
effect of buying wcrc SO casily bought and 
'"'*^^' sold that the results of 

the election in some cases seemed to 
depend in a large measure upon the 
amount of money spent in buying votes. 
This was a serious menace to our institu- 
tions and was highly demoralizing. The feeling of the peo- 
ple against this corruption of American manhood soon ex- 
pressed itself in an emphatic way. State after State passed 
ballot-reform laws, the purpose of which was to lessen vote- 
buying and to give voters a better opportunity to cast a 
secret ballot. These laws provided for a method of voting 
called the Australian ballot system. By this plan every 
voter could shut himself in a stall and there prepare and 
fold his ballot, so that no one could know how he voted or 
interfere in any way with his choice. By 1892 thirty-seven 
of the States, with the aid of both of the great political 
parties, had passed such ballot-reform laws. 

405. The Bering Sea Trouble Settled by Arbitration 
(1886-1893). — This movement, important as it was, aroused 
no great attention abroad. But an international question 
that had remained long unsettled threatened for a time to 
embroil us with Great Britain. After the purchase of 




JAMES G. BLAINE. 



THE NEW UNION 



401 




THE NEW BATTLESHIP MAINE. 



Alaska (1867) the United States claimed entire control of 
the seal-fisheries in Bering Sea. England insisted that the 
jurisdiction of our government could not extend beyond 
three miles from the shore, and she therefore encouraged 
Canadian sailors in seal-catching outside the ^^ j^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 
three-mile limit. So great had become the United states 
destruction of seals that their extermination <'*s»e''ee- 
seemed only a matter of a few years. In 1886, when our 
cruisers seized Canadian vessels and confiscated all their 
cargoes of seal-furs, the dispute between the United States 
and England became serious. 

After a warm diplomatic correspondence the matter was 
referred to a tribunal of arbitration, which decided (1893) 
that the United States had no right to con- 
trol the seal-fisheries beyond the three-mile 
limit. But in making careful provision for the protection 
of the seals, the decision was satisfactory to the United 
States, whose main purpose was to prevent the destruction 
of the seals. The settlement of this dispute without an ap- 
peal to arms was, like the settlement of the Alabama Claims 
(1871), another triumph for arbitration. 

406. The United States and the Hawaiian Revolution 
(1893-1894). — In 1893 a revolution broke out in Hawaii.* 
The revolutionists at once appointed a committee of safety 

' Hawaii was annexed to the United States in 1898, and was made a Territory 



The decision. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



which organized a provisional government and sent com. 
missioners to Washington to secure a treaty of annexation. 
The treaty was arranged and sent by President Harrison* 
to the Senate for confirmation. But before the Senate 
could act upon it President Harrison's term of office had 
expired (March 3). Five days after taking his seat, Presi- 
dent Cleveland withdrew the treaty from the Senate and 
sent to Hawaii a minister who recommended that the queen 

be restored to her throne. Con- 
gress, however, refused to take any 
action. 

407. The World's Columbian 
Exposition (1893). — Our history 
opened with the discovery of Amer- 
ica by Columbus in 1492. Four 
hundred years later the great Co- 
lumbian Exposition in Chicago cel- 
ebrated that event. This exhibition 
surpassed all previous international 
exhibitions, being regarded as one 
of the marvels of the world. The 
location on the lake front wa.= most 
fortunate, and the buildings were 
wonderful in their grandeur and beauty. The deaication 
exercises were held October 21, 1892, and the fair was for- 
mally opened in May, 1893. Foreigners were greatly im- 
pressed by the evidence of the growth of our people in 
higher than industrial lines; and Americans were justly 
proud of the intellectual and artistic advance of their 
country. 




BENJAMIN HARRISON. 



* Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States (1889-1893), 
was born in North Bend, Ohio, in 1833, and died in 1901. After being graduated 
from Miami University, he studied law in Cincinnati, removed two years later to 
Indianapolis, and soon won much success in his chosen profession. In 1862 he 
entered the Union army as a lieutenant, and a little later, having organized a 
company of an Indiana regiment, received the commission of colonel of the 
regiment. He remained in the army throughout the war and rose to the rank of 
brigadier-general. He became a United States Senator in 1881 and ably repre* 
sented the State of Indiana, He was elected President in 1S88. 










AT THE world's FAIR. 
The Administration Building on Chicago Day. 



THE NEW UNION 403 

408. Financial Panic of 1893. — While the country was 
still celebrating the great achievement of Columbus, there 
came, almost without warning to ordinary observers, one of 
the worst financial panics the United States has ever passed 
through. It was called the panic of 1893. There were bus- 
iness failures and financial distress everywhere. As great 
manufacturing establishments could not sell their goods, 
many of them shut down their factories altogether or ran 
them on shorter hours. Soon there were hundreds of 
thousands of workingmen out of work, with suffering and 
want in their families. President Cleveland, believing that 
silver legislation was one of the principal causes of the panic, 
summoned Congress to repeal the Sherman Act, which it 
did (November, 1893) after a long and bitter struggle. 

409. Silver Legislation (1873-1893).— By 1873 the silver 
dollar, having become worth more than the gold dollar, had 
practically passed out of circulation. Very little silver had 
been coined in the United States since 1834, and for more 
than twenty years the yield from newly discovered gold 
mines had been so aDundant that it was gener- silver demone- 
ally supposed, both here and abroad, that the . tizedimsra. 
supply of gold would be sufficient to provide all the specie 
the world needed. Congress therefore passed a coinage act 
(1873) which demonetized silver by declaring that it should 
no longer be a legal tender for debts. 

But many people desired to have more gold and silver 
money in circulation. Accordingly, in 1878, the Bland 
Silver Bill was passed, which not only made silver a legal 
tender for debts, but also directed that the TheBiand 

mints should coin not less than two, nor more silver biii. 

than four, million silver dollars a month. In spite of this 
extensive purchase of silver by the government, however, 
there was a demand for a still larger purchase. 

Congress, therefore, passed the Sherman Act (1890), 
which modified the Bland Bill by providing The Sherman 
that the Secretary of the Treasury should pur- ^ct. 
chase not less than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion each 
month and pay for it by ssuing Treasury notes which were 



404 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



a legal tender for all debts, and redeemable in gold or silver 
coin at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. 
The purchase of silver was therefore increased, but its 
coinage was no longer compulsory. 

410. The Tariff Question. — During the Civil War du- 
ties on foreign goods were raised repeatedly for increased 
revenue to meet the enormous expenses of maintaining 
the army and navy. After the war no change worthy 
of mention was made for about twenty-five years. Dur- 
ing INIr. Cleveland's first administra- 
tion (18S5-1889) it was found that the 
$100,000,000 internal revenue on to- 

piled up in the ^^^^^ ^^^ SpiritUOUS Ho- 

Treasury every r ^ n 

year. uors, and the duties on 

foreign goods, piled up in the national 
treasury $100,000,000 every year, after 
all the expenses of the government 
were paid. President Cleveland there- 
fore recommended such a reduction in 
the tariff as would make the revenue 
and the expenses more nearl}' equal. 
The Mills Bill, representing the pol- 
icy of the President, was passed in the 
House but failed in the Senate. 

In the election of a President and a Congress in 1888 
the tariff was the main issue between the two great parties, 
the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats de- 
manded a tariff lor revenue only, and the Republicans a 
hi<^h tariff for the protection of American manufactures. 
The Republicans were successful not only in electing the 
President, Benjamin Harrison, but in getting control of both 
The McKiniey Houscs of Cougrcss. The outcomc was the 
Bill. passage of the McKiniey Bill in the interests 

of a high taritt to protect and stimulate American manu- 
factures. 

In the Presidential election of 1892 the tariff plank was 
the principal difference between the platforms of the Re- 
publicans and the Democrats. As in 1888, the Rcpub- 




WILLIAM MCKINLEY. 



THE NEW UNION 405 

lican policy was a high protective tariff, while the Demo- 
cratic policy was a tariff for revenue only. The Democrats 
were successful, electing the President and an overwhelm- 
ing majorit}^ in the House of Representatives. As soon as 
they came into office they set about a revision 
of the tariff by passing the Wilson Bill, which, 
in its final form, differed from the McKinley Bill mainly in 
the degree of protection it called for.^ In other words, 
the Wilson Bill stood for a moderately low protective 
tariff; the McKinley Bill for a high protective tariff. 

411. The Pullman Boycott and the Great Railroad 
Strike (1894). — The financial depression of 1893 caused such 
a decrease in travel that there was little demand for the 
sleeping-cars furnished to numerous railroads by the Pull- 
man Car Company, located at Pullman, Illinois, near Chi- 
cago, Its income being greatly lessened, the Pullman 
Company decided upon a reduction of wages. When, on re- 
ceiving notice of this reduction, 3,000 of the workmen went 
out on strike, the company shut down its works. 

The outcome was a strike which soon spread to twenty- 
two railroads running out of Chicago. Business in Chicago 
was prostrate, and travel became dangerous. The usual 
large supplies of meat and provisions going out to various 
parts of the country from that city were cut off, and a meat 
famine was threatened. Various kinds of trade and in- 
dustry throughout the land were thrown into confusion. 
To aid the local authorities in putting an end to the disorder 
in Chicago, 2,000 United States troops and 4,000 state 
militia were sent there. During the strike, the worst of 
which was over at the end of three weeks, the money losses 
to workingmen, railroads, and the United States Govern- 
ment were not less than $7,000,000. 

412. The Anglo-Venezuelan Difficulty and the Mon- 
roe Doctrine (1895-1897). — For a long time there had been 
a dispute between Venezuela and England about the boun- 

' As an amendmcHt to the Wilson Bill, an Income Tax of two per cent, on all 
incomes of more than $4,000 a year was proposed, but the Supreme Court decided 
by a vote of five to four that such a national tax was unconstitutional. 
SO 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 




THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM McKINI.F.Y. 



dary line separating Venezuela from British Guiana. By 
1895 the dispute had become serious, and our government 
tried — as it had for years been trying — to induce England 
to submit the whole question to arbitration. The English 
Government declared, however, that England and Vene- 
zuela could settle their own disputes, without aid or inter- 
ference from the United States. Our government answered 
that if, in this controversy, England insisted upon enforcing 
her claims to territory not shown to be rightfully her own, 
she was violating the Monroe Doctrine. In the high- 
spirited diplomatic correspondence between the two govern- 



THE NEW UNION 407 

ments, our Secretary of State, Richard Olney, argued the 
American side with great vigor and ability. There was, for 
a short time, talk of war; but this war feeling quickly sub- 
sided, and England and Venezuela agreed to settle their 
boundary dispute by arbitration. A most fortunate out- 
come of the Anglo-Venezuelan dispute was a growing feel- 
ing on the part of a large number of people in both the 
United States and England in favor of the settlement of 
difficulties between the two countries by arbitration. 

413. The Presidential Campaign of 1896. — Scarcely had 
the excitement over the Anglo-Venezuelan difficulty passed 
when the United States entered upon an experience which 
can never be forgotten. This was the Presidential campaign 
of 1896. The two leading political questions Free silver and 
to be answered by the people were as follows : the tariff. 
(i) " Shall we have free and unlimited coinage of silver, or 
shall we maintain a gold standard ? " (2) " Shall we have 
a protective tariff, or a tariff for revenue only?" 

When the Republicans met in their National Convention 
to make nominations for President and for Vice-President 
they declared in their platform that they were in favor of a 
protective tariff, and that they were " opposed to the free 
coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the 
leading commercial nations of the world." The convention 
nominated William McKinley, of Ohio, for President, and 
Garrett A. Hobart, of New Jersey, for Vice- The Repubiicana 
President. The Democratic Nominating Con- nominate McKin- 

, P ley and the Dem* 

vention "demanded, in its platform, "the free ocrats Bryan. 
and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present 
legal rate of 16 to i, without waiting for the aid or consent 
of any other nation." This Convention also declared itself 
in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and nominated William 
J. Bryan, of Nebraska, for President. 

Some Democrats, believing in a gold standard, would 
not join the silver movement, and nominated their own 
candidates for President and Vice-President; while many 
voters, who were called Populists, believing that the gov- 
ernment should own and manage all railroads and telegraph 



4o8 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

lines, just as it owns and manages the post-office, nominated 
still other candidates. 

After an intensely earnest and serious campaign McKin- 
ley was elected, and was inaugurated President, March 4, 
1897.' He at once set about the revision of the tariff by call- 
ing a special session of Congress. The result was the pas- 
sage of the " Dingley Tariff" (July 24, 1897), which raised 
the duties on foreign goods in accordance with the promises 
made by the Republicans in the Presidential campaign of 
1896. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Although the events discussed under " The New Union " are im- 

portant, their connection is not always easily traced. They require 
all the more careful study. 

2. Discuss the difficulties and results of the Atlantic Cable. Of what 

value is Alaska to the United States ? How^ many States like your 
own does its area equal ? 

3. What grievances had the Indians even after the adoption of Grant's 

peace policy ? What is the reservation system, and vvhy has it 
failed ? What was the Dawes Act .' 

4. Subject for debate : Resolved, that the Indian has been unjustly 

treated by the whites. 

5. Name the causes of the financial panic of 1873, and show^ the connec- 

tion between it and Western settlement. What did the Centennial 
Exhibition teach the people ? 

6. What difficulty was there about the Presidential election of 1876, and 

how^ was it settled ? Observe that Rutherford B. Hayes vvas Presi- 
dent in 1877-1881. Name all the Presidents in order up to this time. 

• William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States (1897), was bom 
at Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1844, and died in 1901. When the Civil War 
began he was a teacher in a country school. Although only seventeen years old he 
enlisted as a private in the 23d Ohio Regiment, which was commanded later by 
Rutherford B. Hayes. Young McKinley fought so gallantly in the battles of Antie- 
tam, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, that he was advanced to the grade of 
major. After the war was over he studied law and began the successful practice of 
it in Canton, Ohio. In 1877 he entered Congress as a Republican representative 
from Ohio, and served almost continuously until 1891. During his last term, as 
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, he became the author of the 
McKinley Bill. In 1891, and again in 1893, the Republicans elected him 
Governor of Ohio, and he gave evidence of rare tact and executive ability. 
President McKinley was a very eflective public speaker. 



THE NEW UNION 409 

7. Why was so much paper currency issued during the Civil War ? 

Upon what did the value of the greenbacks depend ? What is meant 
by resumption of specie payment ? 

8. Review Jackson's introduction of the spoils system and rotation in 

office. What are the demoralizing influences of this system ? What 
is civil service reform ? 

9. Observe that James A. Garfield was inaugurated as a Republican 

President in 1881, and that after his death Chester A. Arthur be- 
came President, continuing in office in 1881-1885. Grover Cleveland, 
elected by the Democrats, was President in 1885-1889. Benjamin 
Harrison, elected by the Republicans, was President in 1889-1893. 
For the next four years, 1893-1897, Cleveland was again President, 
and gave place to William McKinley, who was inaugurated March 
4, 1897. What was the Presidential Act of 1886 ? 

XO. Prepare to write from three to five minutes on any of the following 
topics: Oklahoma, the Pan-American Congress, the trouble with 
Italy, the Pension Bill, and the trouble with Chili. 

XZ. Why do we need a strong navy ? 

12. What is the Australian ballot system, and why has it been introduced 

into most of our States ? 

13. What was the Bering Sea trouble ? What was the decision reached 

in regard to it by the tribunal of arbitration ? What is arbitration ? 

14. Write an outline of the silver legislation, 1873-1893. 

15. Before taking up the tariff question here review the difficulties about 

the tariff which resulted in nullification in South Carolina in Jack- 
son's administration. What were the Mill's Bill, the Wilson Bill, 
and the McKinley Bill? 

X6. Review the Monroe Doctrine and Maximilian in Mexico. What was 
the trouble between Venezuela and England ? What attitude did 
our government take toward this trouble ? 

17. What were the leading political questions before the people in the 
Presidential campaign of 1896 ? What answers did the Republicans 
propose ? the Democrats ? 



CHAPTER XXIII 

THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 



OUTSIDE READINGS: \>'atterson's HistMiy <>f the Spanisli-American War; 
Kennan's CampaiKniiii; in Cuba; Spear's Our Navy in the War with Spain; 
Russell's History of Our War with Spain ; Roosevelt's Kouijh Riders; Lodge's 
War with Spain; Foster's American Diplomacy in the Orient; Woolsey's 
America's Foreign Policy; Qriffis's America in the East; Andrews's United 
States in Our Own Times; Wilson's History of the American People, V. 

414. The Cubans Rise against Spain (February, 1895). 
— Tariff revision and the iinancial policy of the government 
were serious questions, but there soon arose an international 
complication of overshadowing interest, which absorbed 
much of the thought and energy of the nation. From the be- 
ginning of lier control in Cuba the rule of Spain was cruel 
and unjust. The Cubans tried several times to throw off 
the galling yoke, but in vain. In February, 1895, however, 
they organized in eastern Cuba an insurrection that within 
a year spread to the western end of the island. 








THE WRI'-.CK OF CERVERA's FLAGSHIP COLON. 

Copyright, lSg<}, by Strohmcycr i^ Wyiiian, 
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THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 411 



In alarm the Spanish Government decided upon severe 
measures, and appointed General We3'ler as governor- 
general. He drove the country people into The brutal policy 
towns and cities, burned their dwellings, and of concentration, 
destroyed everything that might furnish supp(jrt to the 
fighting Cubans. Such was the brutal policy of concentra- 
tion. By this policy General Wcyler hoped to starve the 
people into submission, but he failed. Blanco succeeded him 
as governor-general and tried by a 
milder policy to win the Cubans back 
to Spain. The Cubans' cry, however, 
was, " Independence or death ! " At 
the end of three years, with an army 
of more than 200,000, Spain had made 
little headway in putting down the 
insurrection. 

415. Blowing up the Maine. — As 
the war went on American indignation 
grew bitter. In the midst of a period 
of deep feeling aroused by the inhu- 
man methods of conducting the war, 
the people of the United States were 
shocked by an awful event. Oh the night of February 15, 
1898, the American battle-ship Maine, lying in the harbor 
of Havana, Avas blown up. two hundred and t-^ « ■ ^ 

' 1 The iVIaine and 

sixty-six of her sailors being killed by the ex- the submarine 
plosion. Great excitement swept over the """^' 
country. The President at once appointed a naval court of 
inquiry, which, after four weeks of investigation, reported 
that the Maine was blown up by the explosion of a subma- 
rine mine. The American people, holding Spanish officials 
responsible for the destruction of the Maine, were more 
tlian ever inclined to insist that Spain should end the war. 
President McKinley did all in his power to bring about a 
settlement of the trouble, but without success. 

416. War Declared (April, 1898).— In the meantime af- 
faiis in Cuba were becoming worse every da}-. The Presi- 
dent, urged by an impatient Congress to decisive action, 




\V. S. SCHLEY. 



412 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

declared, in a message sent to that body : " In the name of 
humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endan- 
gered American interests which give us the riglit and the 
duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop." 

Congress responded by passing a joint resolution to the 
following effect: (i) The Cubans are free and indepen- 
spain must give dcut ; (2) Spain must give up all authority 
up Cuba. ill Cuba and withdraw her troops; (3) The 

United Stales will exercise control over Cuba long enough 
to restore peace and good order, and will then leave the 

island under the control of the Cu- 
bans. A little later Congress de- 
clared that war had existed since 
April 2 1st, and in due time the 
President called for 200,000 vol- 
unteers from the various States 
and Territories. Congress voted 
that the regular army also should 
be increased to 62,000. 

417. Dewey's Brilliant Victory 
at Manila. — Commodore Dewey, 
GEORGE DEWEY. ^^^ commaudcr of the American 

fleet in Asiatic waters, was ordered 
to sail at once for the Philippine Islands and capture or 
destroy the Spanish fleet. He hastened to Manila, where 
he found (May ist) the Spanish fleet lying under the pro- 
tection of strong shore batteries. With a daring unsur- 
passed he headed his ships for the enemy. While his flag- 
ship was steaming boldly into action, two submarine mines 
exploded just in front of her, but Commodore Dewey did 
not falter. The skilful seamanship of the Americans and 
the rapid and accurate handling of their guns made the 
The Spanish fleet battle short and decisive. The entire Spanish 
destroyed. flgg^ of tcu war-vcsscls was destroyed, and 

1,200 Spaniards were killed or wounded. Not one Amer- 
ican was killed and only eight were wounded, and not one 
American vessel received serious injury. It was one of the 
most brilliant naval victories in history. 




THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 413. 




SHIPPING AND DOCKS, PASIG RIVER, MANILA, 



Admiral Dewey ' could have captured Manila, but, not 
having men enough to hold it, he had to wait for reinforce- 
ments. As soon as possible over 15,000 soldiers were sent 
under General Merritt to co-operate with the American 
fleet. After a combined attack was made upon Manila by 
the army and the fleet, the city su'rrendered (August 13th). 

418. The Coming of Cervera's Fleet. — Until the Span- 
ish fleet at Manila had been destroyed, there was fear of an 
attack upon our Pacific coast. And there was still grave 
fear that an attack might be made upon the great Atlantic 
seaports by the Spanish fleet under the command of Ad- 
miral Cervera. At the outbreak of the war this fleet was at 
the Cape Verde Islands, whence it soon steamed away 
toward Cuban waters. 

What were Cervera's plans? Would he try to reach 
Havana by attacking the American fleet which, under the 

^ On the news of the victory the President appointed Dewey as acting admiral.. 



414 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Cervera's plans. 



command of Admiral Sampson, was blockading the north- 
ern coast of Cuba? Would he steer directly for some 
great city on the Atlantic coast? Or would 
he try to intercept the Oregon^ on her way up 
the eastern coast of South America ? Events soon an- 
swered these questions. 

Cervera arrived at Martinique and then sailed for the 
Dutch island Curasao off the coast of Venezuela, where he 




CUBA. 



,got much-needed coal. He was then ordered to Santiago, 
which, on account of the highlands and the narrow mouth 
of its protected harbor, was thought to be a good hiding- 
•Cervera " bottled placc whilc taking ou coal and other supplies. 
■up •• at Santiago. Soou after his arrival the fleet under Commo- 
dore Schley discovered and blockaded the harbor. The 
Spanish fleet was now " bottled up." 

Still there was fear that Cervera might on some dark, 
•stormy night succeed in getting away. To prevent this, a 

' This great battle-ship had, on March 19, begun her remarkable journey of 
•some 15,000 miles from San Francisco around Cape Horn. On May 24th the 
■Oregon arrived safely and soon joined the blockading squadron. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 415 




UNITED STATES TROOPS LANDING AT BAIQUIKl, CUBA. 



daring plan was laid to sink the collier Mcrriinac directly 
across the very narrow entrance to the harbor. Lieuten- 
ant Hobson and seven other heroic men tried Lieutenant Hob= 
to carry out this plan; but a Spanish shot son's daring ex- 
having carried away the rudder of the Mer- '''"'*• 
rimac before she could be blown up, Hobson did not suc- 
ceed in sinking her directly across but only along the chan- 
nel, and thus but partly obstructed it. 

419. On to Santiago. — A plan of campaign in Cuba was 
quickly organized, and an army of 15,000 men was soon on 
its way to unite with Admiral Sampson's squadron for the 
capture of Santiago and Cervera's fleet. A little later the 
troops were on Cuban soil, pressing on toward Santiago. 
The advance had hardly begun when a battle R^ogeveit Rough 
took place at Las Guasimas^ between about Riders at Las 

A- 1 .1 Quaslmas. 

mencans, among whom were the 

famous Roosevelt Rough Riders, and a force of Spaniards 
considerably larger. This battle was fought in a tropical 
forest, where the dense undergrowth often made it impos- 
sible to see the enemy a few yards awa3^ The Americans 

' The first engagement was at Guantanamo, where 600 American marines 
gallantly held their ground against an attack of greatly superior numbers. 



410 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



advanced in a series of short, desperate rushes, by which 
they steadily drove the Spaniards before them and won a 
signal victorv. 

420. The Battle of Santiago. — Yet in spite of this vic- 
tory it was evident that the Spaniards would make a stout 
resistance. Moreover, the Americans had to face unusual 
difficulties. The so-called roads were rough paths fre- 
quently crossed by rushing torrents without bridges. 




THE PALACE AT SANTIAGO ON WHICH THE AMERICAN FLAG WAS RAISED WHEN 
THE AMERICAN TROOPS TOOK POSSESSION. 



Under such conditions heavy siege-guns could not be 
moved forward promptly. But delay meant something 
worse than Spanish bullets. The intense heat and the ex- 
treme dampness threatened the American ranks with deadly 
disease. General Shafter therefore decided to move on 
without delay, and on July ist made a vigorous attack upon 
the outworks of Santiago at El Caney on the Spanish left 
A glorious Ameri- ^nd the Strong position of San Juan, com- 
can victory. mauding the city. Both these places were 

stoutly defended. The battle was hotly contested, but 
ended in glorious victory for the Americans, who by bril- 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 417 

liant charges swept the enemy before them and captured 
the two strongholds. 

421. Cervera's Fleet Destroyed. — On the morning of 
July 3d the Spanish fleet dashed boldly out of the harbor 
in a desperate attempt to escape. When (about half past 
nine) it was seen coming out, every American sailor eagerly 
leaped to his post of duty. The battle was on. As at 
Manila, the Americans showed themselves superior to the 
Spaniards in gunnery, and won a vic- 
tory as brilliant as that of Admiral 
Dewey. The entire Spanish fleet of 
six war-vessels was destroyed, 600 
Spaniards were killed and 1,300 cap- 
tured. Only one American was killed 
and one severely wounded, and not 
one of our ships was seriously harmed. 
About two weeks afterward Santiago 
and the eastern end of Cuba, with 
22,000 Spanish soldiers, surrendered. 

422. Results of the War. — A large 
American force under General IMiles theodore roosevelt. 
was then sent to Porto Rico, and was "^^ ''"''' 5^ w'^'fw'y^««/vf^''^^'^' 
rapidly getting control of the island, 
when Spain expressed a desire for peace. President McKin- 
ley, therefore, appointed a special commission to arrange 
a treaty. The terms of the treaty were as follows: (i) Spain 
gave up Cuba and ceded to the United States Porto Rico 
and the island of Guam in the Ladrones. (2) She also 
ceded to the United States the Philippines, the United 
States agreeing to pay her $20,000,000. But there was 
marked difTerence of opinion in regard to the clause re- 
lating to the Philippine Islands. Some people objected to 
their annexation to the United States. Others declared that 
such annexation would aid us in securing trade in China 
and other parts of the Far East. In the Senate, where a 
two-thirds vote is necessary before a treaty can become 
effective, there was prolonged discussion. But the treaty 
was ratified February 6, 1899. 




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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



There was another important result of the struggle besides 
those set forth in the treaty. The war helped to bring all 
parts of the country into closer and deeper sympathy. The 
various sections were united as they had never been before. 

423. Porto Rico under the Control of the United States 
(1900). — The people of Porto Rico were glad to come under 
the control of the United States. But they did not get rid 
of all their troubles v/hen they got rid of Spanish rule. 
They were in great financial distress. The war had par- 
alyzed their trade, and a fierce hur- 
ricane had swept over the island in 

Americans relieve 1 899, destroying prop- 
financial distress Crty VVOrth $22,000,000. 

in Porto Rico. ^j^^ Americans gener- 
ously came to their aid by distrib- 
uting immense quantities of food. 
But to relieve the distress some- 
thing more was necessary. In the 
spring- of 1900, therefore, Congress 
returned to Porto Rico more than 
$2,000,000 that had come into our 
treasury in the form of duties laid 
upon imports from the island. 
Later, all tariff rates between Porto 
Rico and the United States were 
removed. 
In April, 1900, Congress passed a law providing for a 
territorial government. Under this law the President of 
the United States appoints a governor and the people of 
the island elect a legislature. 

424. The Re-election and Assassination of President 
McKinley (1900-1901). — Scarcely had the question of civil 
government in Porto Rico been settled when the country 
was astir with the excitement of another Presidential cam- 
pain. The Republicans again nominated William McKinley 
for President, and the Democrats William J. Bryan. As 
in 1896, the leading issue before the country was whether 
there should be a free and unlimited coinaafe of silver at 




W. T. SAMPSON. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 419 

the rate of 16 to i or a gold standard. The people voted 
in favor of William IMcKinley and the gold standard. 

Six months after his inauguration, during a visit to the 
Pan-American Exposition^ at Buffalo, President McKinley 
was assassinated. While receiving in line a great number 
of people in the Temple of Music on the afternoon of Sep- 
tember 6th, he was shot by an anarchist who concealed a 
pistol under a handkerchief wrapped about his hand. This 



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PORTO RICO 

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dastardly act sent a thrill of horror through the land. Dur- 
ing eight days the nation was held in anxious suspense. 
Then the President died, deeply mourned b}'^ the people. 
The Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt,^ at once took the 
oath of office as President of the United States. 



' This was called the Pan-American Exposition because ail the countries of 
North America, Central America, and South America were represented there. 

^Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901), was 
born in New York City, October 27, 1858. He was graduated from Harvard 
College in 1882, and two years afterwards was elected a member of the New York 
legislature. In later years he rendered valuable service as a member of the 
National Civil Service Commission, as president of the New York Police Board, 
and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
War he resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to help 
organize the First United States Cavalry Volunteers (popularly known as the 
"Roosevelt Rough Riders"), a regiment that distinguished itself in the Cuban 
campaign. By reason of his gallantry on the battle-field Roosevelt was promoted 
from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to that of colonel. The year after the war he 
was elected Governor of New York, and in igoi Vice-President of the United 



420 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Asruinaldo, the 
leader of a re> 
t>ellion. 



425. Military and Civil Government in the Philippine 
Islands (1899-1901). — Before the treaty of peace at the end 
of the Spanish-American War could be ratified, some of the 
Filipinos, led by Aguinaldo, rebelled against the authority 
of the United States (February, 1899). After hard fighting, 

Affuinaldo's forces were driven from their 
position near Manila and then out of Malolos, 
the rebel leader's capital. But the rebels con- 
tinued their desperate struggle against a large American 
army^ until Aguinaldo was captured in April, 1900. From 
that time the rebellion offered no sen 
ous resistance. 

The islands remained under mili- 
tary rule until July i, 1901, when civil 
government was established, a special 
-, ., „ . effort being made to give 

Civil govern= & t> 

mcntinthe the pcoplc as large a 

Philippine Islands, ^j^^^.^ j^^ ^j^^j^ govern- 
ment as they had capacity to exercise. 
William H. Taft was appointed gov- 
ernor. For ten months he had worked 
zealously as chairman of the civil com- 
mission appointed for the purpose of 
organizing the best attainable govern- 
ment for the Filipinos. Governor Taft's administration 
was successful in securing good order and popular content. 

426. China and the "Open Door" (1900). — Our presence 
in the Philippine Islands and our rapidly increasing foreign 
commerce brought us into close touch with affairs in the 
Far East. After the war between Japan and China in 
The scramble for 1 894-95, somc of the European powers began 
Chinese territory, ^q yjg with cach Other in Seizing large areas 
of Chinese territory — known as "spheres of influence" — 
in order to bring them under their own control. In 1899 




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States. In the midst of his busy public life he has also written many books, most 
of them in the field of history or biography. In all his work he has labored with 
earnestness, vigor, and sincerity of purpose. 

'In October, 1900, the army there contained 71,000 men. 



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THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD l^OWER 421 

Secretary Hay urged these powers to unite in guaranteeing 
to all nations equal rights of trade in China. The powers 
agreed to carry out his wishes, and thus established the 
policy of the "open door." By securing an agreement to 
this policy Secretary Hay did much to prevent the break- 
up or " partition" of the Chinese Empire for the benefit of 
those European powers that coveted her territory for their 
own enrichment. 

The unseemly scramble for her territory developed in 
China a bitter anti-foreign sentiment, which culminated in 




NATIVE TAGALO CHILDREN, MALABON. 



1900 in a serious outbreak. Some foreigners were killed, 
and even the lives of foreign ministers in Peking were in 
dang-er. In order to put down the uprising Tu^ru„^.^.^ 

o 1 r o i he Chinese up- 

and rescue the legations, the European pow- rising against 
ers, Japan, and the United States found it oi'^'gners. 
necessary to send troops to Peking. In the settlement of 
the difficulties in China our government exercised a pre- 
dominating influence in favor of fair treatment of the 
Chinese. This was an incident in the persistent policy of 
the United States to preserve the territorial integrity of 
China. 

427. The Republic of Cuba (1902). — While these events 
were taking place in the Far East, others of deep concern to 



422 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



US were taking place at our very doors. When Spain gave 
us Cuba, the island came under the military authority of 
the United States. According to a joint resolution passed 
by Congress before the outbreak of the war, this military 
control was to continue until order should be restored and 

the Cubans should 
organize a govern- 

The Cubans organs mcut 
ize a government, gatis- 

factory to Con- 
gress. Early in 
November, 1900, a 
convention of Cu- 
bans met at Ha- 
vana, and before 
the middle of Feb- 
ruary, 1901, com- 
pleted a constitu- 
tion modelled after 
that of the United 
States. On Janu- 
ary I, 1902, a presi- 
dent and m.embers 
of congress were 
appointed in ac- 
cordance with the 
provisions of the 
Cuban Constitu- 
tion, and on May 
20, 1902, the new 
Cuban govern- 
ment was formally 
inaugurated. True 
to its pledges, the United States handed over the control 
of affairs to the recognized official, and the people of the 
young republic entered upon their full independence. 

In Cuba, as in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, 
the United States greatly improved sanitary conditions 




rUIUI'PINE ISLANDS. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 423 

and rapidly organized an effective system of public 
schools. 

In December, 1903, the Cuban Reciprocity Act was 
passed. This provided for a reduction of twenty per cent, 
of the Dingley Tariff rates on Cuban imports into the 
United States, and thus greatly increased Cuban trade. 

428. The Isthmian Canal (igoi-1904). — For some time our 
growing commercial interests had led many people to be- 
lieve that we should be benefited by the construction of a 
canal across the Isthmus of Panama or some narrow part of 
Central America. But public opinion in the United States 
demanded that such a canal should be owned and controlled 
by our government. In accordance with this The Hay=Paunce- 
sentiment, therefore, the Hay-Pauncefote *ote Treaty. 
treaty between England and the United States was signed 
in November, 1901. By the terms of this treaty the United 
States was to have sole power to construct, control, and 
defend an Isthmian Canal for the benefit of the commerce 
of the world. • v 

The next step toward the construction of such a canal 
was the passage by Congress in June, 1902, of the Isthmian 
Canal Act. This act empowered the Presi- The isthmian 
dent to secure the unfinished Panama Canal canaiAct. 
at a cost not to exceed $40,000,000, and also to secure from 
the Republic of Colombia a strip of land, at least six miles 
wide, extending across the Isthmus of Panama. Within 
this strip of land the United States was to construct, oper- 
ate, and protect a canal with control of its terminal ports. 
If, however, the unfinished Panama Canal and the land 
from Colombia could not be secured in a reasonable time 
and on reasonable terms, the President was empowered to 
secure a canal route from Costa Rica and Nicaragua. 

When the Colombian government rejected the treaty 
containing the conditions expressed in the Isthmian Canal 
Act, the people of the State of Panama, feel- The revolution 
ing that their interests had been disregarded, in Panama, 
planned a revolution, which broke out on November 3, 
1903. They quickly organized a provisional government 



424 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



and proclaimed their political independence as the Republic 
of Panama. The new republic was recognized by the 
United States, November 6th. 

On November i8th a new canal treaty was signed by 
Secretary Hay and the representatives of Panama. By the 
The treaty with terms of this treaty Panama granted to the 
Panama. United Statcs " in perpetuity the use, occu- 

pation, and control " of a zone of land ten miles wide on the 
margins of the canal. In return the United States guaran- 
teed the independence of Panama, the payment of $10,000,000 







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WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION AT WELLFLEET, CAPE COD. 

when the treaty should become active, and at the end of 
nine years an annual payment of $250,000. 

The Senate of the United States adopted this treaty on 
February 23, 1904. 

429. The Pacific Cable and Wireless Telegraphy (1903). 
— Another link in the chain of communication which is 
drawing the nations of the earth more closely together is the 
Pacific Cable. This was completed in 1903 and extends 
from San Francisco to Hong Kong by way of Hawaii and 
Manila. On July 4, 1903, President Roosevelt sent the 
first message, which flashed around the world in four 
minutes. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 425 

Of less importance to commerce, but of unmeasured value 
in other ways, is the wonderful invention of the Marconi 
wireless telegraph, by which messages are sent through the 
air. On January 18, 1903, from the station at Wellfleet on 
Cape Cod, President Roosevelt sent to King Edward of 
Ensfland the first wireless messa2;e to cross the Atlantic. 

430. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis 
(1904). — Long before these events took place the people of 
the United States had been intent upon carrying out a great 
enterprise. This was the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
planned to commemorate the centennial of the purchase of 
the Louisiana territory in 1803. It opened April 3c, 1904, and 
closed December ist. Like other international expositions 
on a large scale, it had a great educational influence. Its 
architecture, its sculpture, and its landscape-gardening were 
of a high order of excellence, and so were its exhibits of 
industry and commerce. The latest scientific discoveries 
were among the remarkable features of this exposition. It 
is especially worthy of note, however, that for the first time 
in the history of international expositions, the educational 
exhibit had a building exclusively for itself. 

431. Theodore Roosevelt Elected President (1904).— 
While interest in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was 
still at its height, the public mind was earnestly engaged in 
considering the Presidential nominations that WTre to be 
made in the summer of 1904. When the national conven- 
tions of the two great parties met, the Republicans nomi- 
nated Theodore Roosevelt, and the Democrats Alton B. 
Parker, 

The principal point of difference between the two party 
platforms related to tariff reform, but the issue was largely 
one of the personal popularity of the candidates. As the 
sentiment of the people was with Mr. Roosevelt, he was 
elected by a very large popular majority. 

432. President Roosevelt as Peacemaker (1905). — From 
these questions of national interest and importance we turn to 
one which involved the welfare of the whole civilized world. 



426 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



War between 
Russia and 
Japan. 



On February 6, 1904, nine months before the election of 
President Roosevelt, a terrible war broke out between Rus- 
sia and Japan. All the Western nations, shocked by the 
frightful loss of life, watched the struggle with 
great concern. Finally, when the progress of 
the war and the condition of the opposing forces 
seemed to warrant it, President Roosevelt addressed a note 
to the Governments of Russia and Japan (June 8, 1905). In 
this note he urged the warring nations, not only in their own 
interests, but in the interests of the civilized world, to try to 
agree upon terms of peace. 

The outcome was a conference at Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire, between commissioners from each of the two 




THE ATLANTIC FLEET STARTING ON ITS VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD, DEC., I907. 
From a photograph, copyright, igoy, by Underwood &' Underwood, New York. 



countries. The people in this and in other lands looked on 
with anxious suspense as the commissioners continued, week 
after week, to discuss the question of peace or war. At 
last, when it seemed likely that the conference had come to 
a point of deadlock and was about to break up in failure, 
President Roosevelt, with well-timed decision and tact. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 427 

brought about a delay until he could communicate with the 
Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Japan. The result was 
the sending by the home Governments of such immens,; 
instructions to the commissioners at Portsmouth countrnn°lorid 
as enabled them speedily to agree to a treaty affairs, 
of peace. The successful outcome of President Roosevelt's 
efforts showed the immense influence of the United States in 
the affairs of the world. 

433. The Atlantic Fleet Sails Around the World {1907- 
1909). — In December, 1907, the battle fleet of the United 
States Navy, including sixteen battleships, started from 
Hampton Roads, Virginia, on a voyage around the world. 
The route was by way of South America and the Pacific 
coast to San Francisco, then westward to Australia, the 
Philippine Islands, Japan, and China, passing through the 
Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea, and 
the Straits of Gibraltar. The voyage was completed on 
Washington's Birthday, 1909, at Hampton Roads, where the 
fleet arrived after having travelled more than 30,000 miles. 
Everywhere it was received with great enthusiasm. 

This cruise was a noteworthy event in naval history. It 
not only tested and proved the expert seamanship of our 
navy, but it called into expression the friendly feeling of 
foreign powers. -^ 

434. The Second Peace Conference (1907).— In marked 
contrast with this cruise of warships was the second Peace 
Conference^ held in the same year at The Hague. The first 
Peace Conference had met there in 1899. These meetings, 
which included distinguished men from the various civilized 
nations of the world, were held in the interests of interna- 
tional peace and goodwill. In both conferences our country 
took a leading part in advancing the peaceful settlement of 
disagreements between nations. 

The old method of barbarous warfare, with its cost of 
maintaining vast armies and navies, is a great strain upon 
the people. But even this burden is not to be compared 

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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



with the frightful suffering and loss of life which is caused 
by war. Although the United States is a peaceful nation, 
War and its wars havc cost an enormous sum. More 

arbitration. than two-thirds of the national revenue is 
paid out in pensions, in interest on war debts, and in the 
support of the army and navy. 










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PEACE PALACE, THE HAGUE. 

From a photograph by Under-wood &^ Underwood, Neiu York. 



It is to be hoped that the day will soon come when all 
disagreements between nations will be settled by arbitra- 
The Court of tiou, just as those between individual men are 
Arbitration at now scttlcd by courts of law. Already a num- 
The Hague. |^^^ ^£ such disputcs have been settled in the 
Court of Arbitration at The Hague, which was established 
by the First Peace Conference in 1899. 

Each nation is represented in this Court by four men 
who may be called upon to serve as judges in international 
disputes. When any two nations have a disagreement and 
refer the matter to the Court they select from among the 
judges a small number to try their case and settle the 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 429 

disagreement. Many believe this to be a step toward a 
Supreme Court of the world, which will decide issues be- 
tween nations as our Supreme Court does between separate 
States. 

435. The United States a World-Power. — Our prom- 
inence in the two peace conferences held at The Hague 
calls attention, in a striking way, to far-reaching changes 
that have taken place during the last hundred years in 
this country's relation to the great powers of Europe. 

You will remember that the American Revolution was 
fought to secure our independence from England. But at 
the- end of that war there was no strong spirit independence 
of union among the people of the various '•■*"" Eng'^nd. 
States. Even after we organized a new plan of govern- 
ment under the Constitution, our country was so weak 
from lack of union that it did not command the respect of 
Europe. 

In fact, England and France treated the United States 
as if it were a vassal. The outcome was the War of 1812, 
which has well been called the second war of independence; 
this time it was independence from Europe, independence 
In less than ten years after this war, we gave ^■■"'" Europe, 
expression to our feeling of independence and national 
strength by setting forth what is known as the Monroe 
Doctrine. Its central idea was "America for Americans," 
and supplemented Washington's Farewell Address, which 
had for one of its central ideas "Europe for Europeans." 

These two maxims stand roughly for the traditional at- 
titude of our nation toward Europe until the time of the 
Spanish- American War of 1898. When that war closed, 
Spain had lost the West Indies and the Philippines and we 
ourselves were in control of extensive territory overseas. 

In fact, by this expansion the United States had become 
"Greater America." Our nation was now a world-power 
because our interests were world-wide, and Greater 

our wishes received consideration in any part America, 

of the globe. Our people felt the change. They were 



430 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

conscious of new strength. They were ready to solve new 
problems and had the courage to face new responsibilities. 
Henceforth the United States stood prepared to take an 
active and leading part in the affairs of the world. 

Moreover, for many years before the Spanish War, we 
had been wonderfully prosperous. We had amassed al- 
The chief most uutold Wealth, and had become the chief 

manufacturing manufacturing nation of the world. All this, 
"* ***"* combined with our new prominence as a 

world-power, made the United States an important rival 
of England, France, and Germany. 

436. The World-Powers of Europe. — But these coun- 
tries, as well as some others of Europe, had been under- 
going a transformation. Let us briefly note how there 
came to be a Greater Britain, a Greater France, a Greater 
Germany, and a Greater Russia. 

After the overthrow of Napoleon in 1815, there were 
five great powers in Europe — Great Britain, France, 
Austria, Prussia, and Russia. This situation remained 
without much change, though with some difference in 
Two relative strength, for nearly sixty years. Then 

movements. followed two movcmcuts which altered the 
entire balance of the European world. The first of these 
movements was toward national unity and the second 
toward national expansion. 

Italy had been for ages a mere "geographical expres- 
sion." It was not a single kingdom like Spain, but was 
made up of several kingdoms and other states, some ruled 
United by Austria and others by the Roman Pontiff. 

"*'y- For many years patriots had striven to make 

of these a united Italy. In 1859 began an armed contest 
for this ideal. It ended in 1870 with the complete union 
of all parts of Italy into a single kingdom, with a constitu- 
tion and a national parliament. Victor Emmanuel was 
made King. 

The next country to form a union of its many states 
was Germany. Austria and Prussia, the most important 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A V.CRLD POWER 431 

ones, had long been rivals for leadership. But in 1866, in 
a "seven weeks' war," Prussia defeated Aus- united 

tria, and then forced many other states into Germany, 

a new North German Confederation, with the King of 
Prussia at its head. 

Thus had Prussia suddenly risen to a leading position 
among the great powers of Europe. But one more war 
was fought before there was established a true national 
union of German states under the leadership of Prussia. 
This was the Franco- Prussian War, which oc- _,. 

The 

curred in 1870. Like the conflict between Franco- 
Prussia and Austria it was brief, for within six 
weeks the French were overwhelmingly defeated by the Ger- 
mans. They captured the French Emperor, whose people 
at once deposed him, and at the end of seven months they 
were in possession of Paris and had conquered France. 

Then the Germans compelled France to pay one bil- 
lion dollars as a war indemnity and give up Alsace and 
Lorraine. But the most marked result of the war w^as in 
Germany herself, where a new Germanic Empire was 
created. All the German states except those of the 
Austrian Empire — Austria had by this time united with 
Hungary to form Austro-Hungary — were now ^ ^^^ 

united (1871) in one federal empire, with a Germanic 

written constitution, and with the King of mpire. 

Prussia at the head of the whole. He was also called the 
German Emperor. 

Somewhat later, years after this spirit of national 
union had made itself felt in Italy and Germany, there 
suddenly began among the European countries a wild 
scramble for territory in foreign lands. This wiid scramble 
was the beginning of a fresh era of expansion. ^°'" territory. 
"Spheres of influence" were sought in new lands, because 
of a keen desire for new markets to increase commerce 
and enrich the people. 

Of all these countries England had been the most suc- 
cessful colonizing nation. But she had lost her chief 



432 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

American colonies because she had governed them selfishly 
and for her own interests. In course of time she found 
out that she had more to gain by allowing 
some of her colonies, such as Canada, New Zea- 
land, and Australia, to manage their own affairs, and they 
remained loyal to her. Although she still held these and 
others in various parts of the world, she now wanted more. 
Germany, having become a strong military power with 
a large and ever-increasing population, had great need for 
an outlet to her industries and commerce, which had grown 

Germany, CnormOUsly. So shc alsO was stubbornly re- 

France, and solved to gain new territory beyond the seas. 
Russia. France likewise, not wishing to be left behind, 

was seized with a feverish desire for expansion. She had 
the old belief that colonies by themselves would bring 
national riches. Russia alone was able to expand along 
her borders instead of across the sea; but she needed ad- 
ditional seaports, and these the other powers were deter- 
mined to prevent her from getting. 

By the time the First Hague Conference was held 
(1899) almost all of Africa and more than half of the 
Result of great continent of Asia were under control of 

expansion. Europcau powcrs. Thus you can easily see 
how, in this era of expansion, there came to be not only a 
Greater America, but also a Greater England, a Greater 
Germany, a Greater France, and a Greater Russia. More- 
over, in this gigantic struggle for control of new territory 
all these countries were engaged in world-wide competition 
for world trade. 

437. The Spirit of Union and of Nationalism in Can- 
ada; — The first colony to profit by England's change in 
Dissatisfaction colouial policy was Canada. _ The people in 
in Upper and Upper Canada, or the province of Ontario, 
and of Lower Canada, or the province of Que- 
bec, had been growing more and more dissatisfied because 
their legislatures did not have a larger control over their 
executives and over the expenditure of money. As a con- 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 433 

sequence of the popular discontent, there was a rebellion 
in 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada. Although this 
rebellion was easily put down, to satisfy the Canadian 
people England allowed the two provinces to unite into 
one, called Canada, and govern themselves as they desired. 
In 1867 a broader union was organized to include other 
provinces. At first only four — Ontario, Quebec, Nova 
Scotia, and New Brunswick — joined the union; ^ broader 

but not many years later British Columbia and union in 

Prince Edward's Island became members of the Canada, 

federation. This desire for union on the part of the Canadians 
was doubtless quickened by the groundless fear that the 
United States might attempt to seize and annex their country. 

438. The Spirit of Co-operation Among the Nations. 
— From the foregoing you can easily see that along with 
the development of the spirit of union and nationalism 
there has arisen an ever-increasing spirit of rivalry and 
competition among the great nations of the twentieth 
century. But, while competition must flourish if the world 
is to advance, co-operation is of even greater value. Na- 
tions are coming to realize it. They are learning that 
their prosperity and progress come from working together 
and not by fighting one another. The most advanced ex- 
pression of this co-operative spirit is found in the two 
Hague Peace Conferences, of which we have spoken. 
Their influence should be to strengthen international 
good-will, on a basis of common sense and humanity, and 
to uplift the moral and social as well as the industrial 
welfare of men and women in all lands. 

439. The Conservation of Our Natural Resources. — 
Another matter of great importance to the welfare of our 
country was a meeting held in the White House in Wash- 
ington in May, 1908. It was made up of national and 
State leaders, whom President Roosevelt had called to- 
gether to consider the conseryation of our Natural 
natural resources; that is, the best means of resources, 
preserving our water, forests, soil, fuel, and minerals. 




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THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 435 



As a people we had been extremely wasteful of these 
natural sources of wealth, but with a rapidly expanding 
population the time had come to use them with care. This 
is especially true in the case of forests, which have a large 
influence upon the flow of water in rivers and streams. 
The meeting at the White House did much to strengthen, 
sentiment in favor of preserving our 
resources. Connected with it is the 
work of improving our waterways, 
such as a plan to establish a ship 
route from Lake Michigan to the 
Gulf of Mexico. 

440. President Taft^ and the 
Revision of the Tariff (1909). — 
In the Presidential campaign of 
1908, the Republicans were success- 
ful in the election of their candi- 
dates, William H. Taft as President, 
and James S. Sherman as Vice- 
President. 

Shortly after his inauguration (March 4, 1909), Presi- 
dent Taft called a special session of Congress for the revision 
of the tariff. There was a sharp difference of opinion as to 
how this revision should be made, but after The revision of 
several months of heated discussion, Congress the tariff, 
passed the Payne- Aldrich tariff bill, which became a law 
August 5, 1909. This new tariff law, like the "Dingley 
Tariff" (p. 408), was highly protective. It was therefore 




WILLIAM H. TAFT. 



' William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh President of the United States 
(1909-1913), was bom in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 15, 1857. He was gradu- 
ated from Yale University in 1878, and two years later began the practice of 
law in his native State. In 1892 he was made Judge of the United States Dis- 
trict Court. In 1900 he was appointed president of the United States Philippine 
Commission, and in 1901 became the first civil governor of the Phihppine Islands. 
He filled this important position with great credit to himself and to his country. 
He became Secretary of War in President Roosevelt's Cabinet in 1904 and con- 
tinued in this office until 1908. In the autumn of that year he was elected Presi- 
dent of the United States. For this position of responsibility his long experience 
in the pubhc service seemed especially to have fitted him. 



436 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

regarded with disfavor by those who believed that there 
should be a substantial reduction of duties. 

Along with the tariff law, this Congress passed a bill to 
create a Tariff Commission, but it was abolished by the 
next Congress. It was to investigate the cost of produc- 
ing foreign manufactured articles, that Congress might 
know how high each tariff item must be to protect the 
manufacturers here. 

441. Postal Savings Banks (1910). — Another law 
passed by this Congress established the Postal Savings 
Banks. A leading purpose of this law was to develop 
habits of thrift among people of small means. It was 
thought that those who could save only a little from their 
earnings would be encouraged to put their savings into 
Postal these banks; for they are under the control of 
banks. ^Y^Q United States Government and are there- 
fore absolutely safe. Any person of ten years or over can 
open an account with a Postal Savings Bank by depositing as 
little as one dollar. All deposits pay two per cent, interest. 

442. Arbitration of the Newfoundland Fisheries Dis- 
pute (1910). — For more than a hundred years there had 
been much friction in North Atlantic waters as to the 
rights of American fishermen there. After many fruitless 
efforts to settle the dispute, it was referred by the United 
States and Great Britain to The Hague Court of Arbitra- 
tion, and was adjusted to the satisfaction of both countries. 

443. General Arbitration Treaties of the United States 
with Great Britain and France. — This international dis- 
pute concerning fisheries is far from being the only one 
settled by The Hague Court. Almost every important 
nation in the world has been a party to settlements of this 
kind. 

Moreover, such progress has been made in this direc- 
tion that since the First Peace Conference at The Hague 
most countries have entered into treaties by which they 
agree to settle certain kinds of differences by arbitration.^ 

' Our country has signed many such treaties. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POVv ER 437 

Usually, however, questions involving "vital interests, 
independence, and honor are excepted." President Taft 
strongly disapproved of such formal exceptions, and nego- 




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THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUILDING. 

tiated treaties with England and France without them. 
But the Senate disagreed with him. It refused Differences 
to ratify them without important amendments, settled by 
and would not "delegate to any other body 
its treaty-making power under the Constitution." As 
amended, these treaties required further negotiations. 

444. A New Treaty with Japan (1911).^ — To maintain 
and strengthen our long-standing friendship with Japan, a 



438 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



new treaty was signed with that country, setting aside the 
existing treaty — a clause of which declared our right to 
exclude Japanese laborers. Their government complained 
Japanese that wc placcd no such clause in our European 

exclusion. treaties, and so our new treaty omits it. But 

there is an understanding between the two countries which 
allows us to regulate Japanese immigration as before. 

445. Arizona and New Mexico Made States (1912). — 
In 1912 Arizona and New Mexico were admitted into the 
Union as States. Except Alaska and the District of Co- 
lumbia, all our territory on the mainland has now been 

made into States, bringing up the 
number to forty-eight. So to-day, 
Forty-eight whilc our national flag 
states. contains thirteen stripes 

to represent the thirteen original col- 
onies, it has forty-eight stars to stand 
for the States which now make up 
our great Federal Republic. 

446. Woodrow Wilson^ Elected 
President (1912). — A question of ab- 
issues of 1912 sorblng interest to all 
campaign. ^j^g Statcs was the Presi- 
dential campaign of 191 2. During 
the campaign, issues of far-reaching 
importance were earnestly discussed. 

' Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States (1913- 

), was born at Staunton, Virginia, December 28, 1856. He graduated at 

Princeton University in 1879, and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at 
Johns Hopkins University in 1886. He practiced law for two years but gave 
it up in order to devote himself, as teacher and writer, mainly to history, juris- 
prudence, and politics. After serving as professor of history and political economy 
at Bryn JMawT and later at Wesleyan University, in i8go he was appointed pro- 
fessor of jurisprudence and politics at Princeton University. In 1902 he became 
president of Princeton University, a position in which he remained until 1910, 
when the people of New Jersey made him their governor. But before the end 
of his term of office he was elected President of the United States. During that 
part of his life which he spent as a college professor he wrote a number of books, 
most of which were in the fields of biography, history, and politics. While presi- 
dent of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey he gave evidence of 
marked ability as an administrator. All his work was characterized by sincerity 
of purpose and high standards of public service. 




WOODROW WILSON. 

From a fhoiogrfif>ft. copyright 
jgi2, by Moffett. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 439 

Among these were the tariff, the proper methods of deal- 
ing with the business trusts, and the conservation of our 
natural resources. 

On these great national issues, a new political party was 
formed. Its members called themselves the Progressive 
Party. It was made up of Republicans and Independents, 
and some Democrats who held views which they believed 
to be in conflict with those supported by the Republican 
and Democratic Parties. The supporters of this party se- 
lected as their candidate for President Theodore Roose- 
velt. The Republicans nominated for a second term 
President William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, who 
was the Democratic candidate, was elected. 

447. Reforms to Secure Larger Control over Public 
Affairs for the People. — In this campaign many States 
made use of primary elections, or primaries, in selecting 
delegates to the national conventions which were to nomi- 
nate candidates for the Presidency. It was Primaries select 
believed that in this way the people could candidates, 
have more control in selecting officials to carry out 
their will. The primaries, as you should know, took 
the place of caucuses, in which party managers largely, 
and in many cases entirely, controlled the selection of 
candidates. 

Another reform to help the people to control public 
affairs is the short ballot, which is used in several States 
and in many cities having the commission form The short 

of government. Especially in a large city is baiiot. 

this reform of great value, because such a city is really a 
gigantic business corporation, which taxes the people mil- 
lions of dollars to carry on its various departments — school, 
park, street, fire, police, and so on. 

To succeed in such a great undertaking, the city gov- 
ernment should be well organized and well managed. But 
up to recent years such has not been the case in many of 
our large cities. The administration has been too compli- 
cated and clumsy to get the best work done with the least 



440 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

expense. As a result, there have been much corruption 
and much waste of money. 

To remedy this defect many cities have adopted the 
experiment of a commission form of government using the 
short ballot. By this plan, all the legislative and executive 
Commission fuuctions of the city have been placed in the 
form of hands of a small group of men, usually five in 

government. numbcr. Called a commission, whom the people 
elect. As the number of officials is small, it is possible to 
hold each responsible for the kind of service he renders 
the public. For the same reason also it is easier to find 
Alms to fix out what sort of candidates are up for election 
responsibility. Por the short ballot is quite different from the 
long ballot, which in some cities contains the names of 
scores of candidates, of whom the voter knows very little 
or nothing. The commission form of government is now 
in use in hundreds of cities in the United States. 

The same principle has been carried out in the executive 
departments of State government by making only a few 
important officials elective and requiring them to appoint 
their subordinates. 

Other plans designed to give the people direct control of 
their affairs are the initiative and referendum now being 
The initiative tried by a number of States. By means of the 
and initiative, a certain fraction of the voters may 

referendum. pj-Qpose a statute which the State Legislature 
must consider. If it refuses to adopt the measure, it must 
be submitted to the voters of the State to approve or re- 
ject at a regular election. By means of the referendum, 
a certain fraction of the people may demand that any law 
passed by the State Legislature be submitted to the voters 
at an election to approve or reject as they see fit. 

Another plan, intended to make it easier for the people 

to punish an official for wrong-doing or for unsatisfactory 

public service, is the recall. By means of this 

The recall. ' . ' . . ^ . . 

plan a certam traction oi voters may demand 
an election in which the people shall decide whether or not 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 441 

the official in question shall give up his office before the 
end of the period for which he was elected. 

The movement in favor of' popular control of public 
affairs became so wide-spread that in 191 3 the Seven- 
teenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, re- 
quiring that United States senators be elected by the 
people. Before the adoption of this amendment the 
United States senators had been elected by the State 
Legislatures. This method was not wholly peopie elect 
satisfactory, for two reasons: (i) because there senators, 
were many cases where improper influences were used with 
legislators to secure votes for candidates; and (2) because 
it sometimes happened that a legislature would be dead- 
locked for weeks and even months before electing a sena- 
tor. The feeling was wide-spread that too much time was 
Avasted in this way. 

448. The Parcel Post (1913). — Another Federal law, 
which directly affected the people in every part of the land, 
was the parcel post law. This brought about ^ marked 
a marked change in transportation. Before change in 
the parcel post came into use, parcels and transportation, 
goods that needed to be moved quickly were handled by 
express companies, while bulky freight was handled by the 
railroads, as now. But, as the express companies depended 
upon the railroads for transportation, they served only 
those whom the railroads serv^ed. 

By means of the parcel post, the United States mail 
service can carry on a postal express business reaching 
any locality that is included in our rural free a cheap 

delivery system, even though it may be far means of 

from a railroad station. Moreover, the United dehvery. 

States postal express carries packages and other goods 
within certain limits of size and weights for much less 
than the express companies used to charge. Merchants 
and farmers have been quick to adopt this cheap means 
of delivery, and the work of the parcel post has increased 
with marvellous rapidity. 



442 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

449. The Tariff Law and the Income Tax (1913). — 
After the enactment of the Payne- Aid rich tariff law of 1909 
there followed an increasing demand for more reduction 
in duties. In fact, the tariff continued to be perhaps the 
leading issue in national politics. Shortly after President 
Wilson entered into ofhce, therefore, he called a special ses- 
sion of Congress to consider the tariff question. Follow- 
ing a notable contest, a law was passed (October, 191 3) 
which made a large reduction in the duties on imported 
goods. 

This decided revision downward was certain to bring 
about a large decrease in customs receipts, and it became 
necessary to provide revenue in some other way. A section 
was inserted in the tariff revision law, therefore, levying 
Income tax to au iucomc tax. Such a tax had been advo- 
raise revenue, catcd for many ycars and had already been 
made constitutional by the adoption of the Sixteenth 
Amendment (1913). 

The income tax is levied upon incomes of more than 

four thousand dollars for any married person living with 

wife or husband, and upon incomes of more 

The incomes ^hau three thousand for all other persons. The 

that are taxed. . . '■ 

tax upon such mcomes is one per cent. An 
additional tax is levied upon incomes that exceed twenty 
thousand dollars. 

450. The Currency and Banking Law (1913).— Another 
law having a very important bearing upon the financial 
affairs of the people was the currency and banking law 
Its threefold (1913). It providcs for the Federal Reserv-e 
object. System. The object of the law is threefold: 
(l) to make the monetary system of the country more 
simple and uniform; (2) to provide a plan by which 
there shall always be enough money to meet any special 
need; and (3) to make it easy for this money to be 
obtained in that part of the country where the need is 
greatest. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 443 

The central body, which has power to control and di- 
rect this system, is located at Washington. 
It is called the Federal Reserve Board. The Res^enTe^Boird. 
system includes twelve Federal Reserve Banks,^ 
each being a centre of the banking power in its own 
district. 

All the national banks in any district must become 
members of the system and purchase stock in its Federal 
Reserve Bank, each in proportion to its paid-up capital 
stock and surplus. The State banks also may become 
members if they apply for membership. Only the banks 
in the system and the United States Government can 
deposit money in any Federal Reserve Bank. 

By this new currency and banking law all the banks in 
the Federal Reserve System are joined together to give 
one another financial aid, just as the forty-eight States of 
our Federal Union are joined together for government 
aid. 

451. The Panama Tolls (1914).— According to the Hay- 
Pauncefote treaty between the United States and Great 
Britain, the shipping of all countries was to pay equal rates 
for the use of the Panama Canal. Many of our citizens 
held that "all countries" could legally mean all other coun- 
tries than ours. So Congress passed a law (1913) exempt- 
ing American coastwise shipping from paying tolls. 

Other governments, and likewise many Americans, be- 
lieved this to be a violation of the treaty legally and, even 
more, a violation of good faith. President Wilson, in 
February, 1914, in a special message to Con- panama toils 
gress, asked for its repeal. After long and able exemption 
debates in both the House and the Senate, "-epeaied. 
Congress passed a bill for the repeal, but incorporated in 
it an amendment that it was not to be interpreted as 

*The banking cities are Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Rich- 
mond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San 
Francisco. 



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HISTORY 07 THi: UNITED STATES 



giving up any right of the United States under the Hay- 
Pauncefote treaty with Great Britain. 

452. The United States and the Troubles in Mexico. 
— Althougli the problem of canal tolls was important, it 
was at times almost overshadowed by a criti- 
cal situation regarding Mexico. In February, 
1913, an uprising in the City of Mexico resulted in the 
overthrow and death of Madero, who had been recently 
elected by the people as their constitutional President. 



Trouble with 
Mexico. 




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By the aid of his army, General Huerta became dic- 
tator. He soon got control of the centre of the country, 
including the capital city. But many of Ma- 
dero's followers, especially in the states of 
Northern Mexico, would not submit to Huerta, 
and took up arms in an insurrection that kept growing 
in volume and strength. They called themselves Consti- 
tutionalists. 



Huerta becomes 
dictator. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 445 



Refusal to 
recognize 
Huerta. 



President Wilson refused to recognize Huerta on two 
grounds: (i) he had not been elected by the 
people in a lawful way; and (2), according to 
the best evidence obtainable, his hold upon 
power gave too little promise of stability to justify recog- 
nition of him by the United States. 

This refusal led to much bitter feeling toward our gov- 
ernment on the part of Huerta and his followers. Mean- 
while, the danger to our own people and their interests in 







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DISTANCES BY EXISTING LINES 

AND BY THE 

PANAMA CANAL 



Mexico from the civil war going on there made it prudent 
to send war- vessels to Mexican waters. On April 10, 1914, 
a boat-load of sailors from one of our gunboats landed 
at Tampico to secure gasolene. Thev were 

^ P •' American 

arrested and thrown mto prison. Admiral sailors 
Mayo, commanding the American fleet in the imprisoned, 
harbor, at once demanded their release. This was granted, 
and both the Federal general in command at Tampico 



446 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

and General Huerta himself expressed regret over the 
affair. 

Admiral Alayo was not satisfied. In accordance with 

the long-standing custom of nations, he demanded a salute 

to our flag by the firing of twenty-one Mexican guns. 

Huerta refused, and President Wilson sent a 

Vera Cruz ' 

captured as flcct of war-vcsscls to capturc vera Cruz as 
reparation. reparation for the insult to our flag. On 
April 21 a force of American marines landed there, and 
after some fighting and the loss of a small number of men 
they captured the city and seized the custom-house. 

It looked like the beginning of war. But before there 

was any more fighting the ministers at Washington from 

Argentina, Brazil, and Chile offered to lend 

Mediation. , ^. .' ' ,. t-» • i it-i 

their services as mediators, rresident \\ ilson 
promptly accepted the offer. On May 20 the mediators 
met at Niagara Falls three American and three Mexican 
envoys in order to arrange a plan of settlement. 

Although the mediators did not succeed In ending the 
trouble between the United States and Mexico, there was 
Latin-American no war bctwccn the two countrlcs. More- 
fr^emiir*"^* over, the mere fact that our government was 
toward us. quIte willing to accept the offer of mediation 
from three enlightened and powerful South American states 
doubtless caused all the Latin-American states to be more 
friendly toward us as a people. 1 1 helped them to understand 
that we had no thought of making the troubles in Mexico an 
excuse for getting control, by force, of Mexican territory. 
In the autumn of 191 5 the United States and the Latin- 
American powers recognized Venustiano Carranza, leader of 
carranza the Constltutlonallst party, as the head of the 

recognized. provIsIonal government of Mexico. Serious 
trouble was again threatened in the spring of 191 6, when 
bandits from the army of Francisco Villa, a rebel outlaw, 
crossed the border-line between the two countries and made 
an attack upon Columbus, New Mexico. Thereupon Gen- 
eral Pershing, with several thousand x*\merican troops, in- 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD lOWER 447 



vaded Mexico for the purpose of capturing Villa. This 
wily chief eluded his pursuers; and the pres- 

r \ • Ti X • -11 American 

ence 01 American troops on Mexican soil caused troops in 

so much bitter feeling in that country that 
Carranza insisted that they should be withdrawn. This 
was done some months later. 




AMERICAN TROOPS MARCHING THROUGH VERA CRUZ. 



As border raids still continued, President Wilson, early 
in the summer, ordered the National Guard in all the 
States to mobilize and prepare for military The National 
service on the border of Mexico. There about Jorde'i o" *^^^ 
100,000 men went into camp before the end Mexico. 
of summer, although they were gradually withdrawn be- 
We the coming of winter. 



448 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

A joint commission, composed of men appointed by 
the American and IMexican Governments, met and tried 
to bring- about a settlement of the difficulties between 
the two countries, but no definite and satisfactory results 
came out of the meeting. 

453. The Railway Managers and the Four " Brother- 
hoods " (1916).— While our troops w^ere still in Mexico, a 
The demands scHous situatiou arosc withiu our own borders. 
"^B^o'ther.'^ Four " Brothcrhoods, " or Unions, representing 
hoods." 400,000 railway employees, demanded that 

they should receive their pay on the basis of an eight- 
hour, instead of a ten-hour, day, and that for overtime 
the rate of their pay should be fifty per cent higher than 
for regular hours. When the railway managers rejected 
this demand, the "Brotherhoods" threatened to strike. 
They also refused to submit the dispute to arbitration. 

President Wilson, after holding conferences with each 
of the contesting parties, suggested that the eight-hour 
o . . , basis be adopted, with the understanding that 

President ^ ' o 

Wilson's the employees should not receive higher pay 

suggestion. , ^. n^ .w ^u M 

for overtime. 1 o this the railway managers 
objected, however, "because," they claimed, "shorter 
days mean higher wages, and higher wages the railroads 
cannot afford to pay." 

Refusing to give up anything they had asked for, the 
"Brotherhoods" ordered a strike for Labor Day (Sep- 
Congress passes tcmbcr 4). Then President Wilson, knowing 
theen?^iioye"el' that a general "tie-up" of the railroads 
wishes. throughout the country would bring great 

suffering and even disaster upon the people, urged Con- 
gress to pass a law which would meet the w^ishes of the 
employees. As this was done, the threatened strike did 
not take place. 

Some rrlonths later, w^hen a test case was brought be- 
A commission f^^c the Suprcmc Court, that body declared 
appointed. ^j^g j^^^ ^q [^^^ constitutional. A commission 

was then appointed to make a careful study of the law 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD TOWER 449 

in its operations and later on to bring a report of their 
investigations to Congress. 

454, Woodrow Wilson Re-elected President (1916). — In 
the midst of these serious discussions between railway 
managers and the "Brotherhoods," the coun- issues of 1916 
try was giving earnest attention to a presi- campaign, 
dential campaign and election. Woodrow Wilson, who 
was completing his first term as President, was the Demo- 
cratic candidate, and Charles E. Hughes, who was a justice 
of the Supreme Court, was the Republican nominee. An 
important issue of the campaign was President Wilson's 
foreign policy. The Democrats strongly emphasized the 
fact that he had kept the country out of war; the Repub- 
licans asserted that in dealing with other countries his 
policy had been vacillating, and that he had not given 
proper protection to the lives and property of Americans 
abroad. 

It was some days before the people knew with certainty 
the results of the election. This delay was largely owing 
to the small majority in some of the States, Results of the 
notably New Hampshire, Minnesota, and election. 
California, which in an election so close might have changed 
the result. The final outcome was the re-election of Mr. 
Wilson by a majority of 21 electoral votes. 

455. Important Laws Passed by Congress. — Of the 
important work done by Congress during the latter part 
of President Wilson's first administration, a Rural Roads 
few laws merit special comment. One of '^*^'^- 
these was the Rural Roads Act, which made liberal ap- 
propriations to aid the States in the construction of roads. 
This means better highways, which bring the farmer into 
closer touch with the city market and, along with the 
trolley and suburban trains, make possible country homes 
for many whose work is in the city, thus helping to relieve 
the crowded conditions of city life. 

Another law made a wise provision for federal aid to 
those States which had established vocational schools, 



450 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

where training in domestic science, manual arts, and 
Two other agHculturc is given. Still another law, which 

'**'*• is certain to have a great effect upon our 

future population, requires a literacy test for immigrants. 
Congress passed this law over President Wilson's veto. 

456, The Progress of Prohibition. — We have already 
noted (pages 264-265) the origin and spread of the tem- 
Maine the first P^^^-ncc movcmcnt. jMauy organizations kept 
prohibition up the agitation in favor of temperance re- 
form. Maine was the first State to pass a 

law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of all intoxicat- 
ing drink when used as a beverage, and thus became the 
first prohibition State. 

By 1872 temperance reform had become so wide-spread 
that a national Prohibition party was organized, with the 
specific purpose of influencing Congress to put an end to 
the liquor trafiic throughout the country. 

In recent years the progress of prohibition has been 
rapid, about half of all the States in the Union having 
^ .^ adopted it.' In 1911 the Webb-Kenyon law. 

Rapid progress '^^ ,^ .... 

of temperance forbidding tlic shipment of mtoxicatmg liquor 
re orm. ,^^^^ prohibition States, was passed over the 

veto of President Taft, who considered it unconstitutional. 
The Supreme Court, however, decided in its favor, and this 
decision greatly stimulated the prohibition movement. 
In 1916 Congress established prohibition in the District of 
Columbia. In 191 7 Congress proposed an amendment to 
the Constitution providing for prohibition throughout the 
Union. This amendment, having been ratified by the 
legislatures in three-fourths of the several States early in 
1919, became a part of the Constitution. 

457. The Opening of the Panama Canal (1914). — An 
event which is likely to have an enormous influence in 
strengthening friendship and good-will toward us on the 
part of the twenty Latin-American countries was the open- 
ing to commerce of the Panama Canal (August 15, 19 14). 
There is little doubt that this opening was the beginning 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 451 

of a new era in our national history, and for the following 
reasons: (i) It supplies a short, quick, and cheap water- 
route between the ports of the Atlantic and the Gulf sea- 
board and the ports of the Pacific seaboard. (2) The 
canal shortens the distance between our Pacific States 
and Europe as well as between our Atlantic States and 
Australia, the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan. (3) 
It is also likely to prove a powerful force for good in our 
relations with the twelve Latin-American states border- 
ing on the Pacific, for the increase in trade and travel will 
promote a better understanding and a more friendly feel- 
ing. 

There is already maintained at Washington an inter- 
national organization, the Pan-American Union, which 
aims to develop closer business and commercial relations 
between the United States and the twenty republics to 
the south of us, as well as to form closer ties of friendship 
and good-will. It is important that we should work in 
harmony with our sister republics represented in the Pan- 
American Union. 

458. The United States and the Great War in Eu- 
rope (1914-1916). — Another event of far-reaching conse- 
quence occurred when the great war in Europe suddenly 
broke out in the midsummer of 19 14. This conflict, 
which involved all the great European powers, 

, ° '^ ^ ^ ' A serious 

put a political strain on the neutral nations international 
who wished to maintain their friendship with 
all the warring countries. This was especially true of the 
United States, because the war had a direct influence on 
our commerce and industry. Not only were the principal 
markets for our goods and sources of supplies for our 
factories cut off, but our sea-borne commerce was seriously 
crippled because most of it was carried on in vessels 
belonging to the belligerent countries. 

But, notwithstanding the violent upsetting of normal 
trade conditions, in some ways the war has been a source 
of profit to American business. All the nations at war 



452 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

needed for their armies, and for tlieir civil population, 
vast quantities of munitions, food, clothing, and other 
Our exports to suppHcs bcyond their own capacity to furnish. 
Europe. p^^j. ^j^g year ending June 30, 1915, we ex- 

ported such goods to the value of $857,000,000; in the 
preceding year the value of all such exports was about 
$221,000,000. This means that our sales to Europe by 
reason of the war increased about $636,000,000 during the 
year. For breadstuffs alone we received about $574,000,000 
against only $165,000,000 the year before. 

To prevent all supplies from reaching the enemy was 
of vital importance to both sides. The Allies at the outset 
completely destroyed the direct ocean commerce of Ger- 
many except in the Baltic Sea; while the harm that Ger- 
many could inflict on British commerce by submarines and 
roving cruisers was comparatively small. The Allies then 
turned their efforts toward cutting down Germany's indi- 
rect trade through neutrals. This was a far harder and 
more delicate task, for it involved the welfare of neutrals 
and struck heavily at American interests. 

Up to the opening of this war, food intended for ci\'il- 
ians was never considered as contraband and hence could 
not be lawfully seized at sea when it was on the way 
to a belligerent port. But changed conditions brought 
about new methods. Some time after the war began 
Each side tries German authorities, including those of cities 
suppHe^'^f/om" ^^ ^^'^^^ ^^ thosc of thc Imi)erial Goxernment, 
the other. assumcd control of the distribution of food- 

supplies in Germany. This caused Great Britain to declare, 
on February 2, 1915, that all food imported into Germany 
was contraband. Moreover, Germany had placed mines 
in the North Sea for the defense of her coasts. But 
these were frequently found far away from the shore, 
whether through having drifted, as Germany claimed, or 
"strewn" for ofi"ensive purposes, as England claimed. So 
England established a "war zone" in the North Sea, 
with only a single lane for neutral vessels. On February 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 453 

4, 1915, Germany retaliated by declaring a war zone, 
which, included all the waters around Great Britain, and 
asserted that in this zone she would destroy all enemy 
vessels. She said it might not be possible to save crews 
and passengers, and, moreover, that neutral vessels sailing 
into this zone would be in danger. In return Great 
Britain announced, on March 3, that she would adopt 
means to prevent goods of any kind from reaching Ger- 
many. 

These extensions of contraband and blockade, which 
were violations of existing international law, led our gov- 
ernment to make strong and earnest protests to both sides. 

The chief grounds of protest to Great Britain were 
two: First, that food for a civilian population had never 
been contraband, and her now making it such our protest to 
was remaking international law by her own ^'^^^*- Britain, 
fiat. Second, that her blockade was not legal. This 
was partly because it was not universally effective; it 
did not control, for instance, the Baltic Sea, where 
the German fleet kept trade open with the Scandinavian 
countries. 

Our protest to Germany required most delicate diplo- 
macy on account of our deep reluctance to break off re- 
lations with that country. In the submarine our protest 
campaign against England, Germany torpe- *^** Germany, 
doed several vessels carrying American citizens. The 
first was the Cunard linef Lusitania, which was torpedoed 
(May 7, 1915) without warning off the coast of Ireland, 
with the loss of more than a thousand lives, including over 
a hundred Americans, many of whom were women and 
children. 

Our government, in a note to Germany, stated that 
American citizens had full rights under international law 
to travel wherever legitimate business called _, 

° ^ The position 

them ; that Germany must make reparation of our govem- 

for American lives and property so destroyed ; 

and that in the future she must not allow her submarine? 



454 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES • 

either to attack American ships or to imperil American 
citizens travelling on any ships. 

Germany declared that our requirements were equiva- 
lent to prohibiting submarine warfare altogether, since, if 
Germany's time werc givcn to remove passengers, the 
position. wireless system made it easy for the ship at- 

tacked to call other vessels to her aid, and the submarine 
boats were too vulnerable to resist attack. She further 
declared that she had the right to use the only ocean 
weapon left her and that the peril of innocent lives was a 
risk which neutrals must take or else be in effect allies of 
the enemies of Germany. Later, although refusing to 
admit that her course was illegal, Germany agreed to make 
reparation to the United States for the lives and property 
she had destroyed. 

459. President Wilson's Address to Congress (April 2, 
1917). — But the trouble was far from ended, and events 
which took place during the two years that followed the 
^ ., , „,., sinking of the Lusitania caused such increas- 

President Wil- * 

son's memo- ing friction that the United States finally 
declared that a state of war existed between 
this country and Germany. The steps of progress are 
made so clear in the address of President Wilson tp Con- 
gress on April 2, 191 7, that we may best follow them in 
his own words. In this memorable address, which is one 
of our great historic documents, the President told his 
countrymen and the world how the German Government 
not only had injured our commerce, but also had violated 
sacred human rights and the rights of nations, which we 
as a free people are bound to cherish and defend. He 
said : 

"On the 3d of February last I ofihcially laid before you 
the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German 
^... . c ^ Government that on and after the first day 

Object of Qer- , , -^ 

man submarine of February It was Its purpose to put aside 
war are. ^jj restraints of law and humanity and use 

its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 455 

either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western 
coasts of Europe. . . . That had seemed to be the ob- 




PRESIDENT WILSON ADDRESSING CONGRESS, 
APRIL 2, 1917. 

From a photograph by G. V. Buck, Underwood b' UnderTuood. 

ject of the German submarine warfare earher in the war, 
but since April of last year the Imperial Government 
had somewhat restrained the commanders of its Germany's 
submarine craft, in conformity with its prom- promise to us. 
ise, then given to us, that passenger-boats should not be 
sunk and that due warning would be given to all other 



456 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when 
no resistance was offered or escape attempted, and care 
taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance 
to save their lives in open boats. . . . 

"The new policy has swept every restriction aside. 
Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character. 
Her reckless their cargo, their destination, their errand, 
iTa'^ssion'oT^f havc bccn ruthlessly sent to the bottom with- 
principie. Qy^ waming and without thought of help or 

mercy for those on board. . . . Even hospital-ships and 
ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken 
people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with 
safe-conduct through the proscribed areas by the German 
Government itself, and were distinguished by unmistak- 
able marks of identity, have been sunk with the same 
reckless lack of compassion or of principle. 

"I am not now thinking," continued the President, 
"of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as 
German sub- that is, but ouly of thc wanton and wholesale 
marine warfare dcstruction of non-combatants, men, women, 

a warfare i , -i i i • • i • i i 

against man- and Children, engaged m pursuits which have 
always, even in the darkest periods of modern 
history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property 
can be paid for: the lives of peaceful and innocent people 
cannot be. The present German submarine warfare 
against commerce is a warfare against mankind. 

"It is a war against all nations. American ships have 
been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has 
A war against Stirred US vcry deeply to learn of, but the 
all nations. ships and pcoplc of other neutral and friendly 
nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters 
in the same way. 

"The German Government denies the right of neutrals 
to use arms at all within the area of the sea which it has 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 457 

proscribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern 
publicist has ever before questioned their right to de- 
fend. . . . There is one choice we cannot ,. ^^ ^.„ ^^^ 
make . . . we will not choose the path of choose the path 

, . . , ^P , , . , of submission." 

submission and suner the most sacred right 

of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated. 

The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are no 

common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human 

life. 

■ "With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical 
character of the step I am taking and of the grave respon- 
sibility which it involves, but in unhesitating Germany's 
obedience to what I deem my constitutional agarnst^u^r 
duty, I advise that the Congress declare the country, 
recent course of the Imperial German Government to be 
in fact nothing less than war against the government and 
the people of the United States; that it formally accept 
the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon 
it; and that it take immediate steps ... to exert all its 
power and employ all its resources to bring the govern- 
ment of the German Empire to terms and end the 
war." 

Acting upon the President's advice, the Senate and 
the House without delay passed a joint resolution (April 6) 
that "a state of war between the United 
States and the Imperial German Govern- a state of 
ment, which has been thrust upon the United de^/iarld"^ ^ 
States, is hereby formally declared." 

The promptness and zeal with which the American 
people responded to the action of the government was 
a signal proof of their loyalty and patriotism. 
Measures were taken by Congress and by The people's 
the States all over the Union to put the na- patriotism, 
tion in a state of preparedness for war. 

460. Our Government Co-operates with the Powers 
Allied against Germany.— Shortly after Congress passed 
the war vote, the English and French Go^'ernments sent 



458 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

War Missions to this country in order to bring about 
^^ r- .... effective co-operation between the United 

The EnRlish ^ it- i • r^ 

and French Statcs and thc powcrs alhed aganist Ger- 

War Missions. , i i r 

many, and a general plan ot operations was 
agreed upon. 

Although at that time our army was too small to be 
of service on European battle-fields, there were certain 
^ . . ^ c. .. definite things we could do which involved 

Certain definite ° 

things we no use of the army: (i) We could loan our 

allies money, so that they could buy here or 
elsewhere what they needed. (2) We could furnish them 
with munitions for their armies, raw materials for their 
civilian workers, and food for both. (3) We could build 
merchant ships of sufficient tonnage to help carry these 
supplies across the ocean. (4) With our navy we could 
assist in combating German submarines. 

461, The Whole Nation at War. — In carrying out this 

programme, the whole nation was enlisted to bear the 

heavy burden of w^ar. All branches of in- 

A fine spirit •' 

of co-opera- dustry w^ere called upon to co-operate with 
the government. Farmers, business men, 
railroad operators, mechanics, and unskilled laborers, 
no less than the soldiers and sailors, joined in the service 
of their country. The railroad directors operated the 
250,000 miles of roads as if all were one system; the manu- 
facturers sold the government their products at prices 
fixed by the government; and the chief labor organiza- 
tions pledged their unqualified support during the war, 
their leaders promising to do all in their power to prevent 
strikes. 

To perfect the organization of the various industrial 
interests. Congress authorized the appointment by the 
.w... K, .- , President of a National Council of Defense, 

The National .... 

Council of to consist of six cabinet members and seven 

civilians. In this way the government secured 

the expert advice and invaluable service of some of the 

most prominent leaders in business, industry, and science 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 459 

in the country. In close co-operation with the Council 
of Defense were various commissions and boards, which 
had to do with the special problems of the war, such as 
those of labor, raw materials, munitions, transportation, 
aircraft production, and sanitation. 

Of all these pressing problems, that of transportation 
across the sea was the most important, for w^ithout it the 
other problems would be solved in vain. It Transportation 
was fortunate that Congress, in the preceding across the sea. 
year, had established a board for increasing the number 
of our merchant ships and that the work of this board 
was already begun. It had under its control a capital of 
$50,000,000 with which to build or to buy ships, and it 
now began to push the construction of hundreds of mer- 
chant vessels. 

462. Congress Passes the "Food Control Bill." — To 
make careful provision for the conser\^ation of our food- 
supplies and to regulate their prices, Congress q^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ 
passed the "Food Control Bill" (August 10); toed in the ai= 
and President Wilson appointed Herbert C. 

Hoover, the former head of the Belgian Relief Fund, as 
food administrator. "If we do not economize in food- 
stuffs," said Mr. Hoover, "we stand a great chance of 
losing the war." He assured the people that conditions 
in Europe had not been misrepresented and that millions 
of people in the allied countries would starve unless we 
sent them food. 

Of course, it was evident that we should be unable to 
do this if we were wasteful. Moreover, to increase our 
food-supply, millions of small private gardens Millions of 
were planted and a special effort was made p^^ate gardens, 
to preserve by canning all perishable foods not needed 
for immediate use. "Waste not" became the slogan of 
all good housewives and producers. 

463. The Huge Task of Providing an Adequate Army 
and Navy. — An increase of food, ships, munitions, and 
other material needs was an immediate result of our en- 



46o HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

tering upon the war. The huge task of providing an ade- 
quate army and navy developed more slowly. 

Even before the declaration of war, President Wilson 
Increase in had Ordered the navy to be increased as 
the navy. rapidly as possible to the full war strength 

of 93,000. 

In the month following the declaration of war, the 
Army Draft Bill was passed (May i8), the first step toward 
The selective Calling to the national colors a vast host of 
**'"^^'- the young men of the country. A new feature 

of the enrolment caused the draft to be called selectiv^e, 
since those who were best fitted for army life and had the 
fewest dependants were to be selected for the fighting-line; 
and those were to be exempted from active service in the 
army who were physically or morally deficient, or who were 
engaged in productive industries, or were in some other way 
meeting the vital needs of the country during the war. For, 
as President Wilson said : "The whole nation must be a team 
The whole na- i^i which cach man shall play the part for 
tionateam. which he is bcst fitted. To this end, Con- 
gress has provided that the nation shall be organized for 
war by selection; that each man shall be classified for 
service in the place to which it shall best serve the general 
good to call him." 

On Registration Day (June 5) 9,700,000 young men 
between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years in- 
The first elusive, from every town, village, and city 

*'''''^*^- in the country came to their nearest voting 

places and registered. From these, during the next month, 
the first draft of about 685,000 was made. But long be- 
fore the draft, many thousand men had volunteered and 
had been accepted for service during the war. Some of 
them enlisted in the National Guard, which the President 
in due time called and drafted into the federal service; 
and some joined the regular army and navy, the size of 
which Congress had greatly enlarged. ]Most of the drafted 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 461 

men became members of the National Army and were 
sent for training to forty cantonments located in various 
parts of the country. 

464. Naval and Military Aid to Our Allies.— To defend 
our coast against possible attack by German submarines 
or other hostile craft, our navy promptly ^j^^ united 
began the patrol of American waters ; and states Navai 

1 J. ^u* ^ J r -I- Reserve Force. 

to supplement this coast detense, an auxiliary 

fleet, known as the United States Naval Reserve Force 
. . ... . ' 

was organized. To aid our allies in their submarine cam. 




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paign, a squadron under the command of Admird Sims 
was sent to European waters, where it arrived before the 
1st of May. The first contingent of American troops, 
which was under the command of General Pershing, 
reached France late in June. 

But land and water forces no longer constitute a com- 
plete armament, for the airplane has become a very im- 



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portant, perhaps vital, feature of modern warfare. In 
fact, some military experts believed that it would prove 
The Aviation to be thc most effectivc instrument in decid- 
^'"- ing the outcome of the present wai. However 

that may be. Congress unanimously passed the Aviation 
Bill, providing for some 22,000 airplanes and 100,000 men 
to be trained as aviators. 





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465. Meeting the Expenses of the War. — To raise a 
five-billion-dollar bond credit for meeting the enormous 
The first two cxpenscs of the war and for loaning money to 
"Liberty Qur alHcs, thc government decided to float 

two loans, one of two, and the other of three, 
billions, to be called " Liberty Loans." The first was floated 
early in the summer and was a national triumph. More 
than four million persons bought all of these bonds and 
were willing to buy a billion more than were offered. The 
second loan, floated in October, was also remarkably sue- 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 463 

cessful, for the people responded in a very loyal and 
patriotic way. The total subscription for these bonds was 
over $4,600,000,000 and the total number of subscribers 
was 9,500,000. Since even these loans would not meet 
the needs of the government, in October Congress passed 
a taxation bill which provided for the raising of another 
vast sum of money. 

The war expenses were so enormous that a third liberty 
loan, which was for three billion dollars, was floated in 
the spring of 191 8. The sale of these bonds began on 
April 6, the first anniversary of the beginning of the war, 
and the people, rich and poor, bought them with en- 
thusiasm. The amount subscribed was more than $4,170,- 
000,000, and the subscribers numbered about 17,000,000. 

466. Generous Gifts for the American Red Cross. — Be- 
sides the funds collected by the government loans and 
taxes, the American Red Cross, declared by President 
Wilson to be "the officially recognized agency of volun- 
tary eiTort in behalf of the armed forces of the nation and 
for the administration of relief," asked for gifts amount- 
ing to $100,000,000, The response was so generous that 
much more was given than the sum named. 

467. Our Government Sends a Mission to Russia. — Not 
long after the entrance of the United States into the war, 
a revolution broke out in Russia. The Czar was de- 
throned and a republic established. This great internal 
change while the country was at war produced conditions 
that were almost chaotic. To convince the Russian people 
of our sympathy and desire to be of service, a mission, 
headed by Elihu Root as special ambassador, was sent 
to that country. 

468. Our Country Playing a Large Part in International 
Life. — The sending of this mission, like the reception here 
of war missions from England, France, Bel- ^ . ^ . 

^ _ \ ^ ^ ' Our duty and 

gium, Italy, and Japan, is significant and interests as a 

... - . , , • !• world power. 

strikmg; tor it clearly mdicates a more 

intimate political relation between the United States 



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and Europe than has ever existed before. We are 
now in a deeper sense than at any other time in our 
history playing a large part in international life. And 
this is right; for as a world power, with greater wealth 
than any other nation on the earth, we must be willing 
to do our duty as a people, no matter how high the cost 




THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND GENERAL PERSHING REVIEWING 

AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE. 
Copyright by Committee of Public Information. From Under^vood iif Underwood. 

may be to us in property, and even in human life. We 
must be willing to spend freely of our treasure and our 
blood "to make the world safe for democracy." The fact 
has been brought home to us, as never before, that we 
cannot live as a nation apart, but that our duty and also 
our interests bid us unite with other nations in carrying 
forward the M'ork of civilization. 

469. Government Operation and Control of the Rail- 
roads. — Just before the close of the year 191 7, the govern- 
A\uch ment took into its own hands the operation 

trTnspl^rtation. and coutrol of all the railroads in the country. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 465 

This was done because there was much confusion in trans- 
portation. Cars loaded w4th fuel, food, and other important 
freight sometimes stood on the side-tracks for days because 
it was not possible to move them. 

In explaining the action of the government, President 
Wilson pointed out that under the unusual war conditions 
it was impossible for the many private and Need of bring= 
competing companies to manage the complex raL^'dids under 
system of transportation as effectively as the one control, 
government could by bringing all the railroads under a 
single unified control. A winter of extreme severity, with 
long periods of very low temperature and great snow- 
storms, would have proved a serious handicap to trans- 
portation even in times of normal traffic. William G. 
McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, was made director- 
general of the railroads. 

470. The Coal Shortage. — Shortly after we entered the 
war, it was known that the country would need for the 
year following an increase of about 100,000,000 tons of 
coal over the normal demand. But the mines did not 
supply the extra coal. Moreover, in the second week in 
December, there was a heavy snowfall over a large part 
of the country, and also a period of unusually cold weather. 
The result was a coal shortage which caused much dis- 
tress. In many cities thousands of homes, offices, apart- 
ment and other public buildings used up their coal supply 
down to the last shovelful. Families lived at hotels 
because the apartment elevators stopped running; schools 
and manufactories ran on short hours or closed for a 
time. 

The crisis in the coal shortage became so acute that 
on January 16, the federal fuel administrator, Harry 
A. Garfield, ordered a shutdown of practically a shutdown 
all industry from January 18 to 22, inclusive, of industries, 
and eazh of the following Mondays up to and including 
March 25. This shutdown applied to twenty-eight States. 

The President, in giving the reasons for sending out 



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for the 
shutdown 



the order, stated that the saving of coal was absolutely 
Three reasons ncccssary : (i) To fill the bunkers of ships 
which must carry soldiers and supplies across 
the Atlantic; (2) to transport great quantities 
of food by rail to shipping-points; (3) to enable the people 
to get coal enough to keep their homes warm. 

471. Our Navy and Our Merchant Shipping. — Even be- 
fore entering the war, as already noted, a considerable 
increase had been made in our navy. Immediately after 

taking up arms, the government, with remark- 
Two reasons o r- ' o ' 

for making our able cucrgy, sct out to make the navy far 

more powerful than it had ever been before. 

This was done with two aims in view: (i) To help our 

allies keep open the lanes of ocean transportation, so that 




LAUNCHING A SHIP AND IMMEDIATELY LAYING THE KEEL OF A NEW 
VESSEL IN THE SAME DOCK. 



our men might be sent in safety to France, and also sup- 
plies for them and our allies. (2) Being in the war, we 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 467 

had to prepare to defend our seaports from attack and 
our coasts from invasion. By the ist of May, 1918, there 
were about 300,000 officers and men in our navy. 

But it was not enough to build war-vessels and sub- 
marine destroyers. It was necessary also to increase our 
merchant shipping, for without an adequate merchant 
marine we could not perform the huge task 

'ii' great mer- 

of transportmg an army of perhaps millions chant marine 
to a battle-field three thousand miles distant, 
and at the game time almost unlimited quantities of food, 
munitions, and other war materials. 

Since, therefore, ocean transportation became so vitally 
essential to our success in the war, a gigantic programme 
for the production of merchant shipping was a gigantic 

worked out. The Emergency Fleet Cor- UfhelT 

poration was organized to have charge of the ^e/chan*t* 

building of the new ships, and, finally, in the shipping, 

spring of 19 18, Charles M. Schwab was appointed di- 
rector-general. By the summer of that year there were 
one hundred and fifty-one shipbuilding plants in opera- 
tion, which employed 550,000 men; and by the end 
of July over 1,719,000 tons of shipping had been turned 
out, more than 631,000 tons of which were produced in 
July alone. 

And yet we could not build ships fast enough to supply 
our needs, for the Allied and neutral tonnage destroyed 
by the Germans from August, 19 14, to Jan- 
uary, 1918, amounted to 11,800,000 gross portation 

1 M 1 1 M problem. 

tons, while only 6,600,000 tons had been built 
to replace the loss. This status of the world tonnage led 
the German military leaders to believe, in the spring of 
191 8, that American troops would be unable to reach 
France in time to be effective in determining the military 
decision. According to their theory, the transportation 
problem of America and the Allies could not be solved. 
This seemed the more likely because the Allies had press- 
ing need for every vessel that could be brought into ser- 



468 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

vice to transport food and other supplies for their own 
soldiers and civilians. 

But what the Gerrnan High Command did not take 
into its reckoning was the speed and capacity of the 
Americans. By the middle of June, 1918, 
ing achieve- thcrc had bccn transported, with the aid of 

'"^" ' Great Britain, to the battle-field of France 

700,000 American soldiers; and on September 22, 1,750,- 
000 of our troops were on European soil— British ship- 
ping having carried more than half of them. 

472. Ludendorff's Plan for a Grand Offensive. — 
Ludendorff, who was in direct command of the German 
armies in France and Belgium, could not 
purposl?*^*^'^ foresee this astounding achievement when, 
in the spring, he was planning a grand offen- 
sive before large armies could be brought overseas from 
America. He was very confident of success, for the 
break-up in Russia, as a result of the revolution there, 
had released so many German troops that his armies 
now outnumbered those of the Allies by more than forty 
divisions, that is, not far from 500,000 men. His purpose 
was to separate the British armies from the French by 
breaking through the Allied lines and then to capture the 
Channel ports in the north or Paris in the south. The 
great offensive, by which he hoped to achieve his aim, 
stretched over a period of nearly four months and in- 
volved five titantic "drives," or assaults. 

473*. The First Titanic "Drive." — The first "drive" was 
launched on March 21, when Ludendorff with 1,700,000 
The Allies rncu made an irresistible attack upon the 

the^griveTt British army at the point where it was in 

disaster. touch with thc Frcnch. The British, being 

greatly outnumbered, were routed. But neighboring Eng- 
lish and French troops were brought up, and a host of 
civilian engineers, transport and ambulance men and the 
like, who were quickly turned into an army by General 
Carey, were thrown into the gap between the armies of 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 469 

the x^llies. All fought with desperate valor and held 
back the onrushing Germans until reserve forces could 
relieve the situation and save the Allies from the gravest 
disaster. For if Ludendorff's men had separated the 
French from the English he could have crushed each of 
them in turn and have captured Paris. With the mili- 
tary mastery of the Continent, he could then have con- 
centrated his forces upon England. 

The days following this first German "drive" were the 
darkest of the war for the Allies, but the bitter experience 
had two results which proved to be serious 

e r^ r^\ r i • r Two results of 

for Germany. 1 he nrst was the puttmg 01 the bitter 

. , . ^ ^ experience. 

all the Allied armies under the supreme com- 
mand of one man. General Foch, the brilliant French 
military leader. The second was the hastening, with 
marvellous rapidity, of the transportation of American 
troops across the Atlantic to the western front. 

4^4*. The Americans at Chateau-Thierry. — By the 
time that the third German "drive" began (May 27), 
which aimed at the capture of Paris, Ameri- our boys hait 
can troops had arrived in sufficient numbers of picked"Qlr- 
to play a conspicuous part in the fighting. '"^" troops. 
At Chateau-Thierry, on the Marne River, our boys not 
only halted the advance of picked German troops, flushed 
with recent victory, but forced them to give ground. In 
fact, to Americans — United States Marines and soldiers 
of the American army — fell the honor of taking over the 
lines where the assault was fiercest and w^here failure to 
check the enemy would have opened the road for his ad- 
vance upon Paris, which was only forty miles away. Our 
Marines and soldiers, fighting side by side, here rendered 
valiant service. Their heroism has never been surpassed 
in the annals of warfare. 

The deadly struggle in Belleau Wood, in this battle of 
Chateau-Thierry, began on Tune 2 and lasted The deadly strug- 

• 1 T^i 1 , , gle in Belleau 

for almost an entire month. 1 he loss of the wood. 
Marines, either in killed or seriously wounded, was more 



470 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

than half of their entire force of 8,000 men. For days at 
a time they went without rest, except when so exhausted 
that they fell asleep at their posts. Often, also, they had 
to go for days without hot rations and sometimes for long 
periods without water. But outnumbered though they 
were — sometimes three, four, and even five to one — they 
fought doggedly on, week after week, until by the end of 
June they had cleared Belleau Wood of every German 
soldier. 

The heroic struggle of Chateau-Thierry truly represented 
the fighting qualities of the entire American army. The 
men who fought there — Marines and soldiers 
hel?orsm." alike — covered themselves with imperishable 

glory and added a brilliant chapter to the 
record of American heroism. This battle has been called 
the turning-point of the war. 

475*. Marshal Foch's Great Counter-Offensive. — 
About two weeks after the German defeat at Chateau- 
Thierry, Ludendorff launched his fifth and last assault 
(July 15). After advancing three days he was halted by 
Marshal Foch, who, on July 18, began his great counter- 
offensive that was not to end until the German forces 
were thoroughly beaten and their retreat all but cut off. 

At the outset of this counter-offensive the Marne for a 
second time became the battle-ground and the scene of a 
Defeat of the scrious German defeat. Here, as in Septem- 

Qermans at 

the second bcr, iQid, hcavy masses of reserve troops, 

battle of the , , , V- i i i 11 

Marne. about wlioHi thc Germans had no knowledge, 

were hurled against them with terrific force. Marshal Foch 
could safely use his reser\'es now because many American 
divisions were already on the front and fresh American 
troops were arriving at the rate of 250,000 to 300,000 
every month. The German army, disorganized and thrown 
into confusion, was forced to retreat across, the river with 
heavy losses of men and guns. This second battle of the 
Marne (July 18-29) was quite as decisive as the first. 
From that day forward, for more than three months, 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 470a 

Marshal Foch kept up a ceaseless hammering against the 
German lines, striking first at one point and a ceaseless 
then at another, his armies constantly ad- hammering. 
^'ancing on a front reaching from the Channel on the 
north to St.-Mihiel on the south. 

476*. The Americans Fight Their Way Through the 
Argonne Forest. — By the last of September the German 
armies were in full retreat toward their own poch again 

frontier. Again, as at Chateau-Thierry, Mar- AmeHcan'* 

shal Foch honored the American troops by troops, 

intrusting to them a task of great difficulty and supreme 
importance. They were to fight their way through the 
Argonne Forest, whose ravines, hills, and elaborate de- 
fenses, hidden from view by dense thickets, led the Ger- 
mans to believe that it was impregnable, and then they 
were to cut the German main line of communication in 
the rear. If they could succeed they would bring catas- 
trophe upon the German armies in Belgium and France. 
There were only two gateways of escape for the Germans, 
with the countless tons of guns and military supplies 
which they had been accumulating for up- The Ameru 

•' r^ c \ cans close the 

ward of four years. One of these gateways wide outlet 

-^ 111 ^^'' "''e Qer= 

was at Liege, in the north, but that was too man armies, 
narrow. The other w^as at Sedan. The closing of this 
wide outlet of escape for the German armies was one of 
the most arduous tasks of the war. 

"On November 2," said General Pershing, who was in 
command of all the American forces in France, "the ad- 
vance movement became an onslaught which could not 
be stayed. On the 6th, a division of the First Corps 
reached a point on the Meuse opposite Sedan, twenty-five 
miles from our line of departure. The strategical goal 
which was our highest hope was gained. We had cut 
the enemy's main line of communication, and nothing 
but surrender or an armistice could save the army 
from complete disaster." Ludendorff chose an armistice, 
which was, in fact, as it turned out, an unconditional sur- 



47ob HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

render. This armistice was signed on November ii, 1918, 
and the war, so far as campaigns and battles were con- 
cerned, was at an end. 

477*. America Not Too Late. — At the time when 
Ludendorff began his grand offensive (March 18) there 
were but four American divisions ready to meet the Ger- 
mans in battle. But in the onrush for Sedan we had thirty 
divisions (about 840,000 men) and ten more (about 280,000 
men) ready to fill up the ranks. For before the end of 
October more than two million Americans had been trans- 
ported across the Atlantic. It is gratifying to know that 
America was not too late in reaching the battle-front in 
France and that the part she played in achieving victory 
over the Germans was a large and worthy one. 

478*. Patriotic Spirit of the American People. — From 

the day when Congress declared that we were at 

war with Germany, the American people, 

rificinK spirit With a public Spirit uusurpasscd in our his- 

of America. , -^ .,,. 

tory, showed a willingness to meet any de- 
mands that might be made upon their patriotism. Thou- 
sands, through many organizations, old and new, and by 
private enterprise, generously gave time, money, and 
invaluable service, without thought of material reward. 
Our young men, whether in the regular army or as volun- 
teers or drafted men, regardless of race, creed, or social 
station, cheerfully left their homes to join the army or 
navy, where, by their heroic and self-sacrificing spirit, 
they proved their moral w^orth and their robust manliness. 
North, South, East, and West were one in the glowing 
patriotism that spread throughout America, and the nation, 
united in purpose as in no other war of her history, put 
forth a colossal energy. We were "all comrades" in helping 
to win victory for our country and freedom for the world. 
479*. The Peace Conference at Paris. — The Peace 
Conference met in Paris in December, 191 8, the United 
States being represented by a delegation of American 
leaders and statesmen. President Wilson led this dele- 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 470c 

gation "for the purpose" — according to a statement issued 
at the White House shortly before the date of saihng — - 
"of taking part in the discussion and settlement of the 
main features of the treaty of peace." His presence at 
the conference was necessary, he believed, "in order to 
obviate the manifest disadvantages of discussion by cable 
in determining the greater outlines of the final treaty." 

480*. The Political Organization of the World. — The 
problem of the Peace Conference was twofold: It was 
not only (i) to work out a treaty of peace The twofold 
with Germany and her allies, but (2) to es- KTceConlJr^^ 
tablish an enduring peace by creating a polit- ^""' 
ical organization of the world. Hitherto arbitrary military 
power had been a dei;ermining force in the governments of 
the world, and a new plan of international relations in 
accordance with the wish of the people had to be worked 
out. This was a revolutionary change and meant that the 
rule of law, already in operation within cities, states, and 
nations, should henceforth be established in the political 
relationships between nations. By the proposals of the 
Peace Conference the supreme government of the world 
is to rest upon law rather than force. 

In 1914 the nations, as unrelated political units, were 
much like the gold-diggers in California in 1849, every one 
of whom was armed with a pistol or two be- The nations in 
cause there was no recognized authority, no goid=d^|gerI in 
sheriff or policeman, to protect him. He cahforma. 
could produce the precious metal, but he was without 
the protection of the law, for California was not then 
organized as a law-governed community. Each man, 
therefore, had to protect himself and his property against 
those who might wish to rob him or to injure him if he 
tried to defend himself. 

So it was with the nations of the world before the Great 
War. If a strong power wished to rob or oppress a weaker 
one she might, and often did, carry out her wish, unless, 
as sometimes happened, she was prevented through force 



470cl HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

of arms by other strong nations, who Hkewlse, as a rule, 
were acting from selfish motives. 

^lany of the nations, especially in Europe, became so 
suspicious and fearful that they built up 

Many nations . . . ^ . ' 

suspicious and powcrful armics and navies m competition 

fearful. . ' 

With each other. Yet, even so, their fears 
were not removed, for each one knew that some of the 
others might combine against her. 

In fact, two such combinations or groups of nations 
were formed: the Triple Alliance (1883), consisting of 

Germany, Austria, and Italy; and the Triple 
If'^nations.^'"""* Entente (1907), composed of England, France, 

and Russia. These two ri\-al groups were 
supposed to keep the "balance of power" in Europe and 
thus to prevent war; but this they were unable to do, 
and their gigantic military and naval combinations even 
made the catastrophe of war more appalling. They serv^ed, 
however, as forerunners of that larger group of nations 
that sent representatives to the Peace Conference at Paris 
to solve by far the biggest and most complex problem to 
which any group of men have ever applied themselves 
since the dawn of history. 

This new political organization of the world requires a 

constitution for the same reason that our 

Need of a t^iitt- i • -i- n 

working pro- t cdcral Union, when it was organized in 1787, 

gramme. . . ° 11' 

required one. It is necessary as the basis 
for a working programme of the league for purposes of 
co-operation and mutual helpfulness. 

481*. Some Important Provisions of the Covenant. 
— Without entering upon the details of the structure or 
functions of the League of Nations, we shall mention a 
few of the important provisions of the covenant, using in 
most cases the exact language of that notable state paper. 
They are as follows: 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 4706 



PREAMBLE 

In order to promote international co-operation and to 
achieve international peace and security, by the accep- 
tance of obligations not to resort to war, . . . the high 
contracting parties agree to this Covenant of the League 
of Nations. 

ARTICLE II 

The action of the league under this Covenant shall be 
effected through the instrumentality of an Assembly and 
of a Council, with a permanent Secretariat. 

ARTICLE III 

The Assembly shall consist of representatives of the 
members of the league. ^. , 

" . . The Assembly. 

The Assembly may deal at its meetmgs 
with any matter within the sphere of action of the 
league or affecting the peace of the world. 

At meetings of the Assembly each member of the league 
shall have one vote and may have not more than three 
representatives. 

ARTICLE IV ■ 

The Council shall consist of representatives of the 
United States of America, of the British Em- ^^ ^ 

The Council. 

pire, of France, of Italy, and of Japan, to- 
gether with representatives of four other members of the 
league. 

The Council may deal at its meetings with any matter 
within the sphere of action of the league or affecting the 
peace of the world. 

At meetings of the Council, each member of the league 
represented on the Council shall have one vote and may 
have not more than one representative. 



47of ■ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



ARTICLE VIII 

The members of the league recognize that the mainte- 
nance of a peace requires the reduction of 

The reduction . 

of national national armaments to the lowest pomt con- 

armaments. . . , . 

sistent with national safety and the enforce- 
ment by common action of international obligations. 

ARTICLE X 

The members of the league undertake to respect and 

preserve as against external aggression the 

of all members territorial integrity and existing political in- 

of the league. r ii i r i i 

dependence ot all members ot the league. In 
case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or 
danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon 
the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled. 

ARTICLE XII 

The members of the league agree that if there should 

arise between them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture, 

they will submit the matter either to arbitra- 

The settlement . . . , , ^^ 

of international tion or to luquiry by the Council, and they 

disputes. . -1 J J -1 1 

agree in no case to resort to war until three 
months after the award by the arbitrators or the report 
by the Council. 

In any case under this article the award of the arbi- 
trators shall be made within a reasonable time, and the 
report of the Council shall be made within six months 
after the submission of the dispute. 

ARTICLE XIII 

The members of the league agree that they will carry 
out in full good faith any award that may be rendered 
and that they will not resort to war against a member of 
the league which complies therewith. In the event of any 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 470g 

failure to carry out such an award, the Council shall pro- 
pose what steps should be taken to give effect thereto. 

ARTICLE XIV 

The Council shall formulate and submit to the mem- 
bers of the league for adoption plans for the establishment 
of a permanent Court of International Justice. a permanent 
The court shall be competent to hear and fnt"rnationai 
determine any dispute of an international Just'ce. 
character which the parties thereto submit to it. The 
court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dis- 
pute or question referred to it by the Council or by the 
Assembly. 

ARTICLE XV 

If there should arise between members of the league 
any dispute likely to lead to a rupture, which is not sub- 
mitted to arbitration as above, the members of the league 
agree that they will submit the matter to the Council. 

ARTICLE XVI 

Should any member of the league resort to war in dis- 
regard of the agreement it has made in the covenant, it 
shall be deemed to have committed an act of Punishment of 

members going 

war agamst all the other members oi the towarindis- 
league, which hereby undertake immediately agreenrent. 
to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial 
relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their 
nationals and the nationals of the covenant-breaking state, 
and the prevention of all financial, commercial, or per- 
sonal intercourse between the nationals of the covenant- 
breaking state and the nationals of any other state, whether 
a member of the league or not. 

It shall be the duty of the Council in such case to recom- 
mend to the several governments concerned what effec- 



47oh HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

tlvc military or naval forces the members of the league 
shall severally contribute to the armaments of forces to be 
used to protect the covenants of the league. 

ARTICLE XXII 

To those colonies and territories which as a conse- 
quence of the late war have ceased to be under the sover- 
eignty of the states which formerly governed them and 
which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by 
themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern 
world, there should be applied the principle that the well- 
being and development of such peoples form a sacred 
trust of civilization and that securities for the perform- 
ance of this trust should be embodied in this covenant. 

The best method of giving practicable effect to this 

principle is that the tutelage of such peoples be intrusted 

to advanced nations who, by reason of their 

The tutelage of . . •' , . 

certain colonies rcsourccs, thcif experience, or their geo- 

and territories. i'i •• i i ii' 

graphical position, can best undertake this 
responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that 
this tutelage should be exercised by them as mandatories 
on behalf of the league. 

ARTICLE XXIII 

The members of the league will endeavor to secure 
and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, 
Humane condi- womcu, and children both in their own 
tuons of labor. couutrics and in all countries to which their 
com.mercial and industrial relations extend, and for that 
purpose will establish and maintain the necessary inter- 
national organizations. 

482*. The Treaty of Peace with Germany.— The 
covenant was incorporated in the treaty of peace with 
Germany, which contained the following important pro- 
visions : 

♦The treaty of peace was signed in Versailles on June 28, 1919, in 
the same hall where William I, King of Prussia was' crowned German 
Emperor at the close of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 4701 

Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France; Germany's 
colonies were taken from her; and all con- Germany's loss 
cessions and territory in China had to be of territory, 
given up by Germany. 

The treaty provided that Heligoland should be demol- 
ished, and by German labor, and that the Kiel Canal 
should be opened to all nations. 

Germany was not allowed to have an army of more 
than 100,000 men after March 31, 1920, and was required to 
put an end to conscription. Hei' navy could 

, i- , . . . ^ A crushing blow 

not exceed twenty-tour ships, consistmg of to Prussian 

, , , . P , militarism. 

SIX battleships 01 not more than 10,000 tons 
each, six light cruisers, and twelve torpedo-boats. She was 
not to have any submarines. These provisions were a 
crushing blow to Prussian militarism. 

Germany was required to make reparation for the whole- 
sale destruction she had wrought, beginning with a pay- 
ment, within two years, of five billion dollars. Germany must 

01 1 1 1 1 • • r 1 P^y for destroy- 

bhe had to replace shipping ton tor ton by ing shipping 

, ,. , r 1 M ^"'^ other prop= 

handing over a large part ot her mercantile erty. 
tonnage and by turning out new construction in her ship- 
yards. Her economic resources were also to be devoted 
to rebuilding the regions her armies had devastated in 
Belgium, France, and elsewhere. 

483*. Raising Money for War Expenses. — The ex- 
penses of the war had continued to be so large that it 
was necessary to float a fourth Liberty Loan 
in the autumn of 191 8. The total subscrip- and^new^Txel 
tion was nearly $7,000,000,000 — or about one 
billion more than was asked for — and the subscribers 
numbered nearly 23,000,000. Moreover, in February, 
1 919, a new tax bill, making provision for perhaps 
$6,000,000,000, was passed by Congress; and as still 
more money was needed by the government, the fifth 
loan — called the Victory Liberty Loan — was floated in the 
spring of 1919, the sum asked for being $4,500,000,000. 
This also was largely oversubscribed. 



47oj HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

484*. The Americanization Movement. — The United 

States, as you have learned, went to war with Germany 

not only to help crush arbitrary military 

Americanization , , 1^1 i 1 r r " 

a serious prob- powcr Dut also to make the world sate lor 
democracy. But if democracy is to be safe 
for the world, then the nation must look to the charac- 
ter of its people. In the United States, where demo- 
cratic ideas have been freely developed, the problem 
has become, if not serious, at least one demanding earnest 
attention. The Americanization movement, as we call 
it, has therefore become in our own country one of the 
marked results of the Great War, and it is important that 
we should clearly understand the conditions as they exist 
and what the movement proposes to do. 

According to our last census (1910) one-third of the 
white population in the United States was either foreign- 
born or of parentage that was foreign- 
fa^'cTs^ ^'^""'"^ born. Another startling fact was that nearly 
three million of these people over ten- years 
of age could not speak English, and of this three million 
more than two and a half million w^ere over twenty- 
one years old — that is, of voting age. In the next four 
years the average immigration to this country was 
more than a million a year, so that by the time the Great 
War began the number of non-English-speaking adults 
was very largely increased. And yet in 191 5, as statistics 
show, of this huge group speaking foreign languages less 
than 36,000 attended any school. Furthermore, when, 
two years later, in June, 191 7, the selective draft was 
taken, the fact w^as revealed that there were 700,000 il- 
literate men betw^een the ages of twenty-one and thirty- 
one. 

All these illiterates were for the most part foreign- 
our national bom adults w'ho did not understand Amer- 

strength de- . • . , i • • • i i u 

pends upon civic icau idcals and mstitutions and who could 

intelligence and , r i • i ^' j 

virtue. not, thcrcforc, assume their duties and re- 

sponsibilities as citizens in this great free country where 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 470k 

the government is "of the people, by the people, and 
for the people." Such a mass of ignorant and irrespon- 
sible men is not only an encumbrance to the smooth 
working of the government but is a menace to our free in- 
stitutions; for the strength, stability, and even life of the 
American republic depend upon the intelligence and virtue 
of its citizens. 

The problem becomes more complicated when we re- 
member that these foreign-born immigrants came from 
many countries speaking various languages, we must unify 
and were of different races, each with its own pact"n*yt?on*yr" 
traditions and ways of thinking and acting, ^'■""p- 
To fuse and unify them all in one strong, compact, national 
group, devoted to their adopted country and w^illing to 
serve her best interests at whatever cost, is the task to 
be accomplished. 

The aim of the movement is to establish American ideals 
and institutions upon a firm basis so that all the people 
in the United States, both native-born and The Americani- 

... . 1 • 1 • 1 zation move- 

loreign-born, may work out a higher national ment should 

T 1 • • 1 • • Til make better 

purpose. In achieving this aim, mamtold citizens of us aii. 
agencies are employed. The foreign-born must be taught 
not only the English language but also something about 
American history, American civics, and a sense of respon- 
sibility in co-operating with others to render patriotic 
service to their common country. In fact, both native- 
born and foreign-born alike, in uniting to make a better 
neighborhood, a better state, and a better country, will 
profit by the Americanization movement, which should 
make better citizens of us all. 

485*. Famous Transatlantic Air Flights. — A notable 
achievement of our navy was the crossing of the Atlantic 
by seaplane, the route beginning at Newfoundland and 
ending at Plymouth, England, with intermediate stopping 
points at the Azores and at Lisbon, Portugal. The first 
flight, from Newfoundland to the Azores — a distance of 
1200 nautical miles, and the longest continuous flight by 



47ol HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

seaplane or airplane that had ever been made up to that 
time — began on May 20. Lisbon, 800 miles from the 
Azores, was reached on May 27, but the entire route, as 
planned by American naval authorities, was not covered 
until May 31, when one of the seaplanes ended its famous 
flight at Plymouth, the historic town from which the Pil- 
grims sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. 

Three seaplanes, each having four engines, a crew of six 
men, and a carrying power of more than 25,000 pounds, 
started from Newfoundland, but only one of these got 
across the Atlantic. It was a scientific enterprise, as the 
most careful planning, elaborate precautions, and system- 
atic endeavor were combined with the skill, courage, and 
heroism of the airmen themselves. In order to supply 
skilful guidance, destroyers, which were stationed at inter- 
vals along the route, furnished smoke and light signals. 
The whole undertaking brought lasting honor to our navy, 
which has had a brilliant record from the days of the 
Revolutionary War to the present time. 

The flight of the successful seaplane, under the command 
of Lieutenant-Commander A. C. Read, will go down in 
history as worthy of comparison with the first voyage of 
Christopher Columbus. 

TO THE PUPIL 

1. Do you think the United States was justified in going to war with 

Spain at this time? Give reasons for your answer. 

2. Why did Dewey go to Manila? Impersonating him, give an account 

of your experiences. 

3. What were the most important results of the war? 

4. Explain the policy of the "Open Door." What is meant by the ter- 

ritorial integrity of China? 

5. Explain the following: the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the Isthmian Canal 

Act, and the treaty with Panama. 
G. In what ways is the Pacific Cable of use to the world? 

7. What good results would follow if disagreements between nations were 

settled by peaceful methods? 

8. In what ways is co-operation of advantage among individual men and 

women and also among countries? 

9. What is meant by the United States as a world power. 



THE UNITED STATES NOW A WORLD POWER 470m 

10. Explain the following: short ballot, commission form of government, 

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the Constitution, and 
the income tax. 

11. Why are the Latin-American states, south of Mexico, more friendly to 

us now than they were some years ago.' What are the aims of the 
Pan-American Union? 

12. Explain the serious trouble between the railway managers and the four 

"Brotherhoods." How was it settled? 

13. What results are almost certain to come from the opening of the Panama 

Canal? 

14. How did the Great W^ar bring about trouble between our country and 

Great Britain? Between our country and Germany? 

15. Tell all you can about the torpedoing of the Lusitania. 

16. What promise did Germany make to our government? W^hat new 

policy did she adopt later? 

17. W^hat did President Wilson mean when he said: "We will not choose 

the path of submission"? 

18. Why did we go to war with Germany? 

19. In what ways did we co-operate with the powers allied against Germany? 

20. Wlia; is meant by saying that our whole nation is at war? 

21. Explain Registration Day, selective draft, and "Liberty Loans." 

22. Why is it the duty of our country to play a large part in international 

life? 

23. Why did our government take into its hands the operation and control 

of the railroads? 

24. What was the size of our army in May, 1918? Of our navy? 

25. Why did we need a great merchant marine, and what success met the 

efforts to increase it? 

26. W^hat was Ludendorff's plan for a grand offensive? Tell what you can 

about the first "drive," and explain the two results which proved to 
be serious for Germany. 

27. In what ways did the Americans show wonderful heroism in the strug- 

gle at Chateau-Thierry? 

28. In what respects was the second battle of the Marne like the first? 

29. Can you recall what reasons the German leaders gave for saying that 

American soldiers would not count for much in bringing about a mil- 
itary decision in France? Give some facts which prove that they 
were seriously mistaken. 

30. In what way did Marshal Foch again honor the Americans in the last 

six or seven weeks of the war? Tell what you can about the remark- 
able achievements of these brave men in fighting their way through the 
Argonne Forest and cutting the German main line of communication 
at Sedan. 

31. How did the American people show their patriotic spirit in the war with 

Germany? 



47on HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

32. What was the twofold problem of the Paris Peace Conference? Can 

you explain in what way the nations in 1914 were like the gold- 
diggers in California in 1849? 

33. What are the leading purposes of the League of Nations as expressed in 

the preamble of the covenant? 

34. What advantages would come to the world by the reduction of national 

armaments? 

35. What does Article X say about the protection of the territorial integrity 

and existing political independence of all members of the league? 

36. In what way is a permanent Court of International Justice to be estab- 

lished? 

37. What is to be the punishment of nations who resort to war in disregard 

of their agreement with the other members of the league? 

38. By the terms of the treaty of peace, what territory did Germany lose? 

What crushing blow was given to Prussian militarism? To what ex- 
tent was Germany required to pay for destroying shipping and other 
property? 

39. Why did the Americanization movement seem necessary? What is the 

purpose of this movement? 

40. Tell all you can about the air flight across the Atlantic by American 

aviators. 

41. Name in order the Presidents of the United States. 



CHAPTER XXIV 

SOME INDUSTRIAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CON- 
DITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 

REFERENCES: Scribner's Popular History of the United States, V.; 
Andrews's Last Quarter Century, IL; Bogart's Economic History of the 
United States ; Wright's Industrial Evolution of the United States ; Coman's 
Industrial History of the United States. 

OUTSIDE READINGS: Boone's Education in the United States; Tyler's 
History of American Literature ; Richardson's American Literature ; Stcd= 
man's Poets of America; Hudson's History of Journalism in America; vari- 
ous magazine articles. 

473. The Natural Advantages of i1i2 United States. 
— As the United States in its vast extent has many vari- 
eties of soil and climate, its productions also are varied. 



r 



^ 




THE r.OUXD-UP. 



Our coasts offer valuable fisheries, and the prairies and 
the Great Plains furnish excellent pasturage for millions of 
sheep and cattle. Extensive areas of forest lands supply 

471 



472 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



the best timber, a large region in the South affords suitable 
land for the growing of cotton, and rich mineral deposits 
of gold, silver, copper, iron, and coal lie imbedded in the 
mountain regions. Our coal supply is many times greater 
than that of all Europe, including England. From all 
these sources we get abundant raw material ^ with which 
to supply our factories and still have many things to spare 
for trade in foreign markets. 

474. The Textile Industry.— But these natural sources 
of wealth would be of little value without the power to 
bring them under control and put them to proper uses. 
The industrial This powcr the American people possess in 
revolution. their invcntivc genius, their mechanical skill, 
and their untiring ene»-gy. They have, therefore, become 
leaders in the industrial revolution which began with the 




TEXTILE MILL. 



invention of steam-driven machinery over a century ago 
and is still going on. This revolution has brought about 
such great changes that we may well consider some of its 
more striking phases. 

' In the output of iron, copper, coal, wheat, and cotton — the products which 
with wool are of greatest use in modern industry — our country leads the world. 
It produces wool also in large quantities. 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 473 

The textile industry, a leading one in the United States, 
well illustrates the growth of all. Up to the time of the 
American Revolution, and even later, the coarser cloths 
for ordinary use were made by hand in the household and 
in small shops, while the finer grades were -j-j^^ spinning 
imported from England. It was not until the machine and 
close of the eighteenth century that the spin- * ''*'^^' ***""' 
ning wheel and the hand loom gave place to the spinning 
machine and the power loom. These new inventions, im- 
ported from England, completely changed the making of 
woolen and cotton cloth. 

The first spinning mill with machinery made after the 
English models was built by Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, 
Rhode Island, in 1790. This was the beginning of the 
factory system in the United States. But the The first mod- 
first factory, in the modern sense, that is, a ^'" factory, 
building where all processes from the raw material to the 
finished product are carried on under one roof, was erected 
at Waltham in 18 14. Since then the extension of cotton 
manufactures has been steady and rapid. New inventions 
and processes and increased demand for cotton goods have 
given the textile industry a wonderful development.^ 

Just as the improved machinery in spinning and weav- 
ing transferred the making of cloth from the household to 
the factory, so the invention of the sewing machine (1846) 
changed the making of men's clothing from a The sewing 
domestic to a factory industry and the man- machine, 
ufacture of boots and shoes from a hand-made to a machine- 
made product. This transfer of industries from the home 
and shop to the factory greatly lowered the cost of labor 
and cheapened production. The price of ready-made cloth- 
ing and shoes was thus brought so low as to come within 
the reach of even the very poor. 

475. Iron and Steel. — Another industry which has had 
a remarkable growth is that of Iron and steel. Like the 

' Textiles include clothing and fabrics of every description for household and 
other uses; textile materials include cotton, wool, flax, silk, and coarser fibres. 



474 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



making of cloth, it had an early beginning but did not in- 
crease much during the colonial period. Common farm 
implements, tools, and household utensils were made in 
most of the colonies, but the finer grades of cutlery and 
edged tools were brought from England. 

It was not until the beginning of the last century that 
the iron and coal fields of western Pennsylvania began to 
be worked, and Pittsburg, now the most important cen- 
Theuseof tre of the iron industry, had its first foundry 

anthracite coal. (1803). During the years that followed, fur- 
naces, forges, iron mills, and steel works sprang up in all 
quarters. But the impulse which revolutionized the mak- 




ANTHRACITE COAL ^:I^■E. 



ing of iron was brought about by the use of anthracite 
(hard) coal instead of charcoal in the process of smelting 
(1840). It cheapened production and increased the output. 
The Bessemer process (1859) wrought a second revo- 
lution. This invention, with the use of bituminous (soft) 
coal instead of anthracite, gave a wonderful stimulus to the 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 475 

iron industry. By greatly cheapening the manufacture of 
steel rails it also played a large part in the rapid extension 
of the railroad system. For steel rails, being gteei rails 
stronger than iron, made possible the use of cheapen 

1 1 ,' J 1 • j_ • J transportation. 

larger locomotives and heavier trains, and 
permitted a much higher rate of speed. They are, there- 
fore, the foundation of cheap and rapid transportation, 
which is a great factor in pur industrial life. 

Steel is also used extensively in the structure of bridges, 
of large buildings, and of war-vessels, as well as in the in- 
ventions and conveniences of every-day life. Our natural 
products of iron and coal have been the greatest forces in 
the development of manufacturing in this country. 

476. Railroad Rate Regulation. — The astonishing 
growth of manufactures and business in this country since 
the outbreak of the Civil War would have been impossible 
without the aid of the railroad. After the close Railroad rates 
of that war railroad lines were rapidly extended not fair to aii 
so as to connect the mining and farming re- * 'Pp^fs- 
gions with cities and factories. In the course of time most 
of the important railroads in the country were combined 
into a few systems, and the lines of each system passed 
through several States. The great railroad companies 
owning these systems, in their eagerness to secure busi- 
ness, made certain rates which were not fair to all shippers. 
Some shippers and places were secretly charged less than 
the regular freight rates. The business companies who en- 
joyed the advantage of the lower rates were thus enabled, 
in some instances, to drive rival companies out of business. 

To stop this injustice. Congress passed the interstate 
commerce act (1887). Its purpose was to regulate trade 
between the States.^ This law declares that freight and 
passenger rates on railroads running from one The interstate 
State into another shall be just and reasonable, commerce act. 
and shall be uniform, for like service, for all. The Inter- 

^ Congress can regulate trade between the States. But only the State Legisla- 
ture can regulate trade carried on entirely within any State. 



476 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

state Commerce Commission (first consisting of five mem- 
bers and later of seven) was appointed to see that the law- 
was carried out. 

As the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission 
under this law were not large enough, another rate law was 
passed (1906). It forbids the granting of free passes and 
The rate laws dcclarcs that if any shipper complains of a 
of 1906 and rate as unjust and unreasonable the Inter- 
state Commerce Commission shall have the 
power to fix a new rate. Still another law was passed 
(1910), which created a commerce court to enforce the or- 
ders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It gives the 
commission power to suspend (for as long as ten months if 
necessary) a new rate, or any rate, in order to find out by in- 
vestigation whether or not such rate is just and reasonable.^ 

477. The Federal Trade Commission (1914)- — As 
the Interstate Commerce Commission was given power to 
oversee and regulate railroads and other transportation 
interests and the Federal Reserve Board was given large 
powers in the field of currency and banking, in like man- 
ner, for the best business interests of the whole country, a 
need was felt for another powerful Federal board to regu- 
late and control corporations or trusts holding property in 
several States. 

Accordingly, the Federal Trade Commission bill was 
passed by Congress (1914). It authorized the appoint- 
Threefoid mcut of the Federal Trade Commission with 

Federal *Trad^e thrccfold powcrs as followsi (i) to invcsti- 
commission. gate interstate corporations in order to find 
out whether they were breaking the laws; (2) to forbid and 
prevent unfair methods of competition; and (3) to aid the 
Attorney-General and the United States courts in enforc- 
ing the anti-trust laws. 

478. Trusts and the Regulation of Trusts. — The rail- 
road, improved machinery, and the opening up of the 

' The rate law of igio applies not only to railroads but to telegraph, telephone, 
and cable companies, and also to express companies and sleeping-car companies. 



COXUITIOXS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 477- 



West caused manufacturing to Increase with wonderful 
rapidity. Business was extended and competition became- 
intense. As an outcome, rival companies decided that 
union was better than strife, and large companies or cor- 
porations were organized. A corporation formed by the: 
union of several companies was called a trust. ^ 




The anti» 
trust law. 



GOODS AWAITING EXPORTATION. 

The main purposes of the trust were, first, to cheapen 
the cost of production, and, second, to lessen and, so far 
as possible, to prevent competition. But the people felt 
that the prices of trust-made goods, which 
often included the necessaries of life, were too 
high. As the trust controlled the market in its given line 

^ Examnles of trusts are The Standard Oil Company, The United States Steel 
Company, The Sugar Trust, etc. The Standard Oil Company controls the output 
of petroleum, in the production and export of which the United States leads the 
world. The first oil-well was bored in Pennsylvania in 1859. Since then oil has, 
been produced in large quantities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, and. 
in other States. 



478 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

of goods, it could fix the prices on the raw materials it 
bought and on the finished goods it sold. Accordingly, the 
Sherman anti-trust law was passed (1890). This de- 
clares, in effect, that all combinations and agreements 
made for the purpose of controlling the output and sale of 
goods and of fixing prices are unlawful and are liable to 
punishment by fine or imprisonment. 

479. The Growth of Our Foreign Trade. — Quite 
apart from attempted regulation of railroads and trusts, 
the volume of our trade has steadily increased. Our ag- 
The United ricultural and manufactured products have 
the world ^ more than kept pace with the needs of our 
in exports. growing population, and the surplus has found 
a ready market among the nations of the world. The 
foreign trade of the United States is a fair measure of its 
economic progress. During our first century as a nation 
we were largely agricultural and had to depend on foreign 
markets for many of our manufactured goods. By the 
close of that century the products of our factories more 
than equalled in value the products of our farms, and to- 
day we are the leading manufacturing nation in the world. 
Moreover, during the period of development, our exports 
did not pay for our imports. But since 1876 our exports 
have exceeded our imports, and the United States has 
advanced to the position of the first exporting nation in 
the world. ^ 

Along with the growth of exports has been an increase 
of imports, consisting mainly of raw materials used in 
manufactures, and of luxuries, that is, of those things which 
_. . could not be produced at home. The value of 

The immense '^ 

volume of our our total cxports for 1917 was over $6,294,- 
comme'rce. 000,000; of our total imports, nearly $2,659,- 
000,000, making an excess of exports of over 
$470,000,000. This volume of foreign trade is a measure 
not only of the expanding commerce but of the growing 

' Only three times during that period — in 1888, 1889, and 1893 — did our im- 
ports exceed our exports. 



COXDITIOXS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 










TRANSPORTATION IN A LARGE 
CITY, SHOWING ELEX'ATED 
ROAD, SURFACE LINE, AND 
SUBWAY. 



wealth of the nation. 
And when we learn 
that our domestic 



commerce is many- 
times as large as our 
foreign we get a faint 
idea of the magnitude of the country and of its business 
operations. 

480. Electricity in Modern Life. — As we have seen, 
steam has come to be of immense service to the world by 
its use as a motive power in driving machinery. But no 
less remarkable, perhaps, is the work which The many uses 
electricity has been made to do in many ways. **' e'ectricity. 
The telegraph, the telephone, the marine cable, and wire- 
less telegraphy have already been discussed as useful agents 



48o HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 

in the transmission of thought. About 1880, by the in- 
vention of the arc and the incandescent lights, electricity 
was applied to the lighting of streets and of houses. Soon 
after, it came int6 use as a moti\'e power. Trolley-cars, 
electric automobiles, electric engines, and electric motors 
for fixed machinery followed. 

But two of the most striking uses of electricity are 
the transmitting of power from falling water to distant 
cities^ and the producing of the X-ray, which enables 
physicians to photograph the bones and to obser\^e the 
action of the heart and other organs in the living body. 
By 1900 the uses of electricity had multiplied twentyfold, 
and yet to-day they are believed to be in their infancy. 

481. Inventions as Aids to Human Progress. — From 
all that has been said about the uses of electricity and 
steam and the various forms of invention, we see clearly 
how science has aided man in bringing the forces of nature 
under his control. Improved machinery as well as im- 
proved methods of travel, transportation, and communica- 
tion have so cheapened the cost of food, clothing, and other 
things needed in every-day life that the day laborer can 
now have comforts and conveniences which even the rich 
did not enjoy fifty years ago. 

Moreover, as inventive genius is constantly making new 
discoveries, we may confidently look forward to changes as 
wonderful as any that have yet been made. Two of the 
The automobile most rcccnt inventions are the automobile and 
and the flying ^hc flviug machinc. Before tlie close of 1910 

machine. . ' i -i i i 

the automobile had come mto extensive use 
not only as a means oi jjlcasure and recreation, but also 
for practical purposes in the city and on the farm. In the 

' Important examples of companies engaged in such transmission of power are 
the Central Colorado Power Comi)any, the power companies of Niagara Falls, and 
the Southern Power Company. The first transmits power from Shoshone Falls to 
Denver, a distance of i8o miles; one of the second group, from Niagara Falls to 
Syracuse, a distance of about 150 miles; and the third to various points, some 
of which arc 150 miles from the place where the power is generated. In all these 
cases the transmitted power may be used for driving fi.\ccl machinery, for propel- 
ling trolley-cars, and for lighting pur[)oses. 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESEN'i 481 



same year successful experiments with the flying machine, 
invented by the Wright brothers, led people to believe 

that the days of 
aerial navigation 
might be near at 
hand. 

482. City Popu- 
lations and Munic- 
ipal Reform. — Our 
huge industries 
must be carried on 
by large bodies of 
workmen. The re- 
sult has been an 
amazing growth of 
modern cities; and 
this massing of 
people in great 
centres has brought 
new problems to the 
front. 

When the Constitution went into effect in 1789 only 
about three per cent, of the people of the United States 
lived in cities; now not far from forty per cent, are in cities 
of 4,000 inhabitants and upward. The immense growth 
of manufactures and commerce has largely caused this 
change. The massing of large numbers of people in com- 
mercial and manufacturing centres furnishes a difficult 
political problem. Many of the most ignorant foreign-born 
voters are found in such centres, and, being without in- 
telligent ideas about our government, they can the more 
readily be induced to sell their votes. As the strength of 
republican institutions depends upon the morality and in- 
telligence of the people, the practice of buying and selling 
votes presents a grave danger. But a wide-spread move- 
ment in the interests of better city government is making 
itself felt more and more every year. 




A CROWDED STREET IN A TENEMENT DISTRICT. 

Copyright, igo2, by Underwood 6^ Undcrtvood, New York. 



482 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Interest 
in higher 
education 



483. Education. — All our material advantages would 
"be worth little without a moral and intelligent people to 
make proper use of them. This the United States under- 
stands and has therefore been foremost among the nations 
Liberal of the world in educating its citizens. Every 

f'orpubnc'"'*''^ State in the Union has its system of public 
schools. schools, some even providing State universi- 

ties. As a natural result of such systems the progress of 
education in the United States has been remarkable. 

The nation has also 
taken much interest in 
higher education, and 
the people have reason 
for pride in the stand- 
ing of their 
universi- 
ties. The 
value of the property 
owned by colleges and 
universities in the 
United States, includ- 
ing grounds, buildings, 
and productive farms, 
amounts to hundreds 
of millions of dollars. 
Outside the colleges 
and universities 
there are many professional and scientific schools. 

Many special institutions of learning have also been 
established by gifts and bequests of rich men and women, 
who have given of their abundance not only for the devel- 
Education of opmcut of good and strong minds, but also 
the weak and for the training and support of the weak and 
helpless. helpless classes of society, such as the blind, 

the deaf, the mentally defective. There are in the United 
States many institutions for those classes that need special 
help. The nation has made a supreme effort to educate 




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NEW STEEL TOW'ER BRIDGE ACROSS THE 
EAST RIVER, NEW YORK. 

Copyright, tqo4, by Underwood d^" Underwood, 
Ne7u York. 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 483 

the masses and to improve the condition of the weak and 
suffering. 

In recent years, under the direction of the United 
States Bureau of Agriculture/ much attention has been 
given to training for hfe on the farm. There g ^^.^j 
are now more than sixty agricultural colleges training for 
established in various parts of the country, ^^^ *'"''"■ 
and model farms and experiment stations are to be found 
in every State in the Union. By means of these oppor- 
tunities the farmer is learning to make the soil yield much 
larger returns than was possible before science came to his 
aid. The advance in scientific farming is one of the most 
hopeful movements of our time. 

Another promising movement is that in favor of vo- 
cational and trade schools, that is, schools which give 
special training for modern industry. The jrainin for 
belief is growing that our public schools not modem 
only should furnish a, general training for life ""dustry. 
but also should help to develop that mechanical power 
and skill and that industrial knowledge which are so much • 
needed in our complex factory system. 

484. Woman Suffrage. — Quite as noteworthy is the 
advance in the higher education of women in the past 
twenty- five or thirty years. Women now have ^, . ,^ 

■^ _ -' -' _ ^ Advance in the 

scholastic advantages formerly limited to men, education of 
and have taken their place in many fields of ^*""^"- 
activity once exclusively occupied by men. This has 
come about, however, not only because of a broader gen- 
eral training, but partly on account of the transfer of 
many household duties to the mill and fac- _. . , 

-' _ Their iarr;er 

tory. As we know, many household supplies outlook upon 
which women made by hand in the home a ''^®" 
hundred years ago are now made by the use of power 
machines within factory walls. Women are also doing 

^ In 1862 Congress authorized the establishment of the Bureau of Agriculture 
and also made provisions for the support of agricultural colleges from proceeds of 
the sales of public lands. 



484 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



more than they ever did before in the many forms of pub- 
He service which make for a finer pubHc spirit and a better 
■civic Hfe. 

By reason of these and other facts, many beheve that 
women should have the same voting privileges as men. 
Wyoming was the first State to vote full suffrage to women. 
There are now twelve States in which women have in all 
respects equal voting power with men. 

48s. Newspapers and Periodicals. — The high aver- 
age of intelligence in the United States has created a great 
•demand for newspapers and magazines. They have be- 





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come an immense educational force, giving the people a 
The linotype kccncr, morc intelligent interest in public 
and the complex affairs. But it is well to remember that with- 
printing.press. ^^^ ^j^^ ^j^j ^^ rcccnt invcutious the modern 

daily newspaper would not be possible. The telegraph, 
the telephone, and the marine cable all aid in gathering 
the news, while the linotype and the complex printing- 
press supply the lightning processes of printing. The 
linotype enables the printer very rapidly to put the news 
into type by striking the keys of a keyboard as in operat- 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 4S5 

ing a typewriter. The most advanced printing-press will 
print, fold, and count 300,000 eight-page papers in an 
hour, or more than eighty every second. 

486. Literature. — For a long time after the settlement 
of the English colonies the people were too busy with the 
work of clearing the land and building suitable homes to 
produce any literature. Washington Irving, born the same 




THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904. ONE OF THE 
BRIDGES AND LAGOONS, WITH THE PAL.\CE OF EDUCATION. 

Copyright, igo4, by Louisiatia Purchase Exposition Co. 

year that the Revolution was brought to a close, first 
attracted public attention by his Knickerbocker History of 
New York. He has rightly been called the "Father of 
American Literature." J. Fenimore Cooper, his contem- 
porary, was the first American novelist. He irving, cooper, 
wrote the first sea story that attracted the ^"'* Bryant, 
attention of the world, and was. author of the famous, 
Leather stocki7ig Tales, describing the life of the AmericaHi 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Indian. These stories were written with such freshness 
and originality that they were eagerly read in many 
countries. Our first poet to be recognized in England, 
WilHam Cullen Bryant, belonged to the same period. He 
came into fame by his well-known poem, Thanatopsis, 
written when he was nineteen. 

Among the familiar names of later American literature 
are the following: poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 






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John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar 
^,^ - ... Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James 

other familiar ^ f ^ i t 11 

names in Amer- Russcll Lowcll *, cssayists, Emcrsou and Lowell ; 
ican literature. novcHsts, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. How- 
ells, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe; historians, 
George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, William H. Pres- 
cott, and Francis Parkman. Much excellent work has 
been done by living writers, especially in the department 
of American history, and this work is coming from all 
parts of the country. 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 487 

487. Problems of the Hour. — The great educational 
influences coming from the pubHc schools, from higher in- 
stitutions of learning, from the newspapers and periodicals,, 
and from the reading and study of good literature are pre- 
paring the people rightly to solve the problems of the 
hour. These problems include the race problem in the 
South, temperance reform, immigration, the tariff, trust 
regulation, railroad regulation, conservation of our natural 
resources, vocational education, the form of government 
of our cities, the money question, civil service reform, 
woman suffrage, and the strife between labor and capital. 
The right solution, of these difficult problems demands 
intelligence, patience, and conscientious effort. We must 
take time to study them, and we must try to look at them 
from more than one point of view. If we approach them 
with a broad and generous spirit, with an earnest desire ta 
find out the truth, we shall be more likely to understand 
them and to take the proper steps to a satisfactory solution. 

488. Relation of the Individual Citizen to the State. 
— But no matter what problems present themselves for 
solution, the character of the State is determined by the 
character of its citizens. We should never forget that a 
vast territory like ours, with all its wealth, is not necessarily 
great. The greatness of a country is not measured by what 
it has in land, productions, trades, and educational in- 
stitutions, but by what its people are. If they are intel- 
ligent and patriotic, ready at all times to do their duty in 
the interest of the public good, their future is assured. 

You, my young reader, owe much to your country for 
what it has done for you. It has been said America mean& 
that America means opportunity. It does, opportunity. 
It means opportunity to get wealth, power, influence, and 
honor. It means opportunity to make the most of your 
powers of body and mind. But, more than all else, it 
means opportunity to make the institutions of your coun- 
try better by honest, faithful service, and sincere efforts 
to know the truth. 



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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



Charles Sumner said of our national flag: "The stripes 
of alternate red and white proclaim the original union of 
thirteen States to maintain the Declaration of Independ- 
our national cncc. I ts stars, whitc OH a field of blue, pro- 
flag- claim the union of States constituting our na- 
tional constellation, which receives a new star with every 
new State. These two signify union, past and present. 
The very colors have a language which was officially recog- 
nized by our fathers. White is for purity, red for valor, 
blue for justice." 

" I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for 
which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and 
justice for all." 




TO THE PUPIL 

1. Name the natural advantajes of the U, S. 

2. What is meant by the industrial revolution? Name two inventions that 

had a large inriuence on the making of textiles. How did the sewing 
machine cheapen the cost of clothing ? 

3. What effect did the use of hard and soft coal have upon the production 

of iron and steel? How did steel rails cheapen transportation? 

4. What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act? What powers 

were given to the Interstate Commerce Commission by the various 
rate laws? Why was the Anti-Trust Law passed? 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 489 

5. Tell what you can of the immense increase of our foreign trade. 

6. What is meant by the transmission of power by the use of electricity? 

Give examples of such transmission. 

7. What is meant by municipal reform, and why is it needed? 

8. What liberal provision has been made for public schools in this coun- 

try? What advance has been made in education in recent years? 

9. Name four inventions which make the modern daily newspaper possible^ 

10. What are some of the familiar names in American literature? Name 

some of the problems of the hour. 

11. What is the relation of the individual citizen to the state? 

12. Before laying aside the study of this history learn the symbolism, as 

given by Charles Sumner, of the colors of the " Stars and Stripes," 
and memorize the " pledge." 



490 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 



CHRONOLOGY 

1867. March i, Nebraska admitted to the union. 

1868. July 28, FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ADOPTED. 

1869. March 4, ulysses s. grant inaugurated president. 
Alay 10, first pacific railroad completed. 

1870. March 30, fifteenth amendment ratified. 

THE ninth census, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 38,558,371. 

1871. January, all states again represented in co>}gress. 
1873. February, law passed demonetizing silver. 

March 4, ulysses s. grant inaugurated president, 
financial panic. 

1876. centennial EXPOSITION AT PHILADELPHIA. 
FIRST TELEPHONE PATENTED. 

August I, COLORADO ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 

1877. March 4, rutherford b. hayes inaugurated president. 

July, great railroad strike IN PITTSBURG. 

1878. February, bland-allison silver bill passed. 

electric LIGHT INVENTED. 

1879. January 1, resumption of specie payments. 

1880. THE tenth census, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 50,155,783. 

1881. March 4, james a. Garfield inaugurated president. 
September 22, Chester a. Arthur formally inaugurated. 

1883. letter postage reduced to two cents. 

1884. December, new Orleans exposition opened. 

1885. March 4, grover Cleveland inaugurated president. 
1887. the interstate commerce act. 

1889. March 4, benjamin Harrison inaugurated president. 

April 22, OKLAHOMA OPENED TO SETTLERS. 
PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS MET IN WASHINGTON. 

November 2, north Dakota admitted to the union. 
November 2, south Dakota admitted to the union. 
November 8, Montana admitted to the union. 
November 11, WASHINGTON admitted to the union. 

1890. dependent pensions act became a LAW. 

July 3, IDAHO admitted to the union. 
July 10, WYOMING admitted to the union. 

MCKINLEY TARIFF BILL BECAME A LAW. 

SHERMAN SILVER PURCHASE LAW PASSED. 

THE ELEVENTH CEN.SUS, SHOWING A POPULATION OF 62,622,250. 

SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST LAW. 

1893. January 14, REVOLUTION in Hawaii. 

March 4, grover Cleveland inaugur.\ted president. 

May I, COLUMBIAN world's fair opened at CHICAGO. 



CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT 491 

1894. June 4, PULLMAN BOYCOTT. 

August 27, THE WILSON BILL BECAME A LAW. 

1895. December 17, president iCleveland's Venezuela message. 

1897. March 4, William mckinley inaugurated president. 

July 24, DINGLEY tariff BILL BECAME A LAW. 

1898. April 25, congress declares war to exist with spain. 
May I, dewey's victory* at Manila. 

July I, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO. 

July 3, <:ervera's fleet destroyed. 

1899. February 6, treaty of* peace with spain ratified. 

1900. the twelfth census, showing a population of 75,568,686. 

1901. March 4, william mckinley inaugurated president. 

July I, CIVIL government established in the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 

September 14, theodore roosevelt inaugurated president. 

HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY SIGNED. 

1902. May 20, NEW CUBAN GOVERNMENT FORMALLY INAUGURATED. 
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL ACT. 

1903. January 18, first wireless message sent across the Atlantic. 
July 4, first message sent by the pacific cable. 
November 3, the revolution in Panama. 

November 18, the canal treaty with Panama signed. 

1907. the second peace conference held at the HAGUE. 

November 16, Oklahoma admitted to the union. 

1908. May, meeting at Washington cvn the conservation of our natural 

resources. 

1909. March 4, william h. taft inaugurated president. 
August 5, payne-aldrich tariff BILL becomes a law. 

1910. the thirteenth census, showing a population of 91,972,266. 

1912. January 6, new Mexico admitted to the union. 
February 14, ARIZONA admitted to the union. 

1913. February 25, sixteenth amendment declared in force. 
March 4, woodrow wilson inaugurated president. 
May 31, seventeenth amendment declared in force. 

1914. AtlgUSt 2, TECE beginning OF THE GREAT WAR IN EUROPE. 
August 15, THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA CANAL. 

191 7. March 4, woodrow wilson inaugurated president. 

April 6, CONGRESS declares a state of war to exist with GERMANY. 

May, ARMY draft established. 

June, FIRST CONTINGENT OF AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED IN FRANCE. FIRST 

LIBERTY LOAN. 

August, FOOD CONTROL ESTABLISHED. 

October, second liberty loan. government operation and control 

OF railroads ESTABLISHED. 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 

(The figures in parentheses refer towages in the book) 



1. DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS. 

I. European trade with Asia in the fifteenth century (i). 
Portugal leads in discovering an Eastern route (2). 
Columbus and his discoveries (3-6). 
Americus Vespucius and the naming of America (8). 
Magellan proves America to be a continent (9). 
Spanish discoverers and explorers (De Leon, Nar/aez, De Soto, 

and Balboa) (13, 14, 18, 19). 
Voyages and discoveries of the English (Cabot, Drake, Raleigh, 

and Gosnold) (6, 21, 23, 26). 
Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River (63). 
Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence (87). 

10. Champlain explores Lake Champlain (88). 

11. Father Marquette and La Salle explore the Mississippi (90). 



n. THE SPANISH IN AMERICA. 

1. Precious metals the main object of the Spaniards (13). 

2. The Spaniards drive the Huguenots out of Florida (15, 16). 

3. Advantages of Spain in the New World (16). 

4. Reasons for Spanish failure (17). 

5. Relations between Spain and England (20, 21). 

6. France cedes to Spain all territory between the Mississippi and 

the Rocky Mountains (102). 

7. France regains Louisiana from Spain (219). 

8. The purchase of Florida from Spain (239). 

9. Spain and the Monroe Doctrine (240). 

10. The Spanish-American War (410-417). 

11. Spain gives up Cuba and Porto Rico (417, 418). 



m. THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA. 

1. The Spaniards drive the Huguenots from Florida (15). 

2. The work of Champlain (87-89). 

3. The French in the Mississippi Valley (89-92). 

4. England and France struggle for control in America 193). 

5. The last French war and its results (97-103). 

6. The French lose control of territory in North America (103). 



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TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 493 

7. Influence of the French Revolution upon American affairs (207). 

8. Citizen Genet defies Washington (208). 

9. The " X. Y. Z. Papers " and serious trouble with France (210). 

10. France regains Louisiana from Spain and sells it to the United 

States (219, 220). 

11. The attempt of Napoleon III to establish an empire in Mexico 

(344, 345)- 

IV. STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL IN WHAT IS NOW THE UNITED 
STATES. 

1. Advantages of Spain in the New World (17). 

2. Why Spanish colonization failed in North America (17). 

3. England's need of America (25). 

4. Success of English colonization in America (28-74). 

5. The Dutch in New Netherland (63-66). 

6. New Netherland becomes New York; why the Dutch failed in 

colonizing America (67, 68). 

7. The work of Champlain (87-89). 

8. The French in the Mississippi Valley (89-92). 

9. The French lose control of territory in North America (103). 

10. The English colonies declare their independence of England 

(148-150). 

11. The Revolution puts an end to English rule in the thirteen Eng- 

lish colonies (183). 

12. France cedes to Spain all territory between the Mississippi and 

the Rocky Mountains (102). 

13. France regains Louisiana from Spain (219). 

14. The purchase of Florida from Spain (239). 

15. The attempt of Napoleon in to establish an empire in Mexico 

(344, 345)- 

V. ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH COLONIES. 

1. Sir Walter Raleigh's attempt to colonize America (23-25). 

2. The London and Plymouth Companies (28). 

3. Virginia. 

a. John Smith and the settlement of Jamestown (29-31). 

b. Dale's Great Reform (32). 

c. The second great reform iiz)- 

d. The great need of labor; the labor supply (34). 
€. Tobacco establishes rural life (35). 

f. Berkeley and the people; Bacon's Rebellion (36, 37). 

4. Maryland. 

a. Lord Baltimore and the Catholics settle Maryland (37). 

b. Lord Baltimore's proprietary rights (38). 

c. Disputes about boundaries and religion (39). 

d. Prosperity of the people (39). 



494 TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 

5. North and South Carolina, 

a. ■ Charles II and the grant of land (41). 

b. The form of government (41). 

c. Carolina divided into North and South Carolina (41). 

d. The population (41). 

6. Georgia. 

a. Why Oglethorpe wished to plant a colony (41). 

b. The settlement of Georgia (41). 

c. Georgia becomes a royal colony (41). 

7. England under the Stuarts (42). 

8. Massachusetts. 

a. The Pilgrims migrate to America (44). 

b. Voyage and first winter (45). 

c. The covenant, demopracy, and the church (46). 

d. Relations with the Indians (46). 

e. The Puritans and the Massachusetts Bay Colony (47). 
/. The New England township (48). 

g. Church and State (49). 

9. Connecticut. 

a. Massachusetts gets control of the Connecticut Valley (50). 

b. Massachusetts settles the Connecticut Valley (51). 

c. Thomas Hooker and democracy (51). 

d. The Connecticut constitution (52). 
ID. Rhode Island. 

.Religious intolerance in Massachusetts leads to the settle 
ment of Rhode Ishind (54). 

11. The New England confederacy (55). 

12. The Quakers in New England (56). 

13. Trouble with England; loss of the Massachusetts charter (58). 

14. Andros the Stuart governor in New England (59). 

15. Industries and trade in New England (61). 

16. New York. 

a. Henry Hudson seeks the Northwest Passage (63). 

b. Dutch claims in New Netherland (64). 

c. The patroons (64). 

d. The Dutch win the friendship of the Iroquois Indians and 

thus secure an extensive territory (65). 

e. New Netherland under Dutch governors (66). 
/. New Netherland becomes New York (67). 

g. New York under English governors (68). 

17. Pennsylvania. 

a. The Quakers in New England (69). 

b. William Penn and the Quakers settle Pennsylvania ^70). 

c. The Quakers live in peace with the Indians (71). 

d. Penn's liberal government (71). 

e. The growth of Pennsylvania (72). 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 495 

18. New Jersey. 

a. The first permanent English settlement (73). 

h. "The Jerseys" and New Jersey (73). 

c. New Jersey becomes a royal province (74). 

19. Delaware. 

a. The Swedes plant settlements along the Delaware River (74). 

b. The Dutch make New Sweden a part of New Netherland 

(74). 

c. Delaware becomes a part of Pennsylvania (74). 

d. The people of Delaware allowed a separate assembly (74). 



VI. THE INDIANS. 

1. Division into families of the Indians east of the Mississippi (75). 

2. Character; occupations; wampum; religion (77-79). 

3. The clan and the tribe; communal living (80). 

4. The Mound Builders (81, 82). 

5. Number of Indians; their influence upon the whites (82, 83). 

6. Relation of the Pilgrims with the Indians (46). 

7. Early Indian wars (84-86). 

8. The Iroquois Indians (88, 89). 

9. The Quakers and the Indians (71). 

10. The conspiracy of Pontiac (103). 

11. Burgoyne's Indian allies (158). 

12. Tecumseh's conspiracy (228). 

13. War with the Creek Indians (235). 

14. The Seminole Indians in Florida (239). 

15. Grant's Indian peace policy and the reservation system (384-386). 



Vn. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. 

1. Jay's fruitless treaty with England (208). 

2. England claims the right to search American vessels and im- 

press American seamen (225). 

3. England and France greatly injure American commerce (226). 

4. The War of 1812 (228-238). 

5. The Oregon boundary dispute settled by treaty (269-271). 

6. The Trent affair (309). 

7. England and King Cotton (311). 

8. England and the Confederate navy; the "Alabama Claims" settled 

by arbitration (343). 

9. The Bering Sea trouble settled by arbitration (400). 

10. The Anglo-Venezuelan difficulty and the Monroe Doctrine (405). 

11. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty with England (423). 

12. The Panama tolls and the Hay-Pauncefote treaty (443). 

13. Great Britain becomes Greater Britain (432). 



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TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 



Vin. STEPS LEADING TO THE CONSTITUTION. 

1. The New England Confederation (55J. 

2. Franklin's Plan of Union (121). 

3. The Stamp Act Congress (132). 

4. Committees of Correspondence (138). 

5. The first meeting of the Continental Congress (145). 

6. The second meeting of the Continental Congress (145). 

7. The Declaration of Independence (148). 

8. The adoption of the Articles of Confederation (188). 

9. The Annapolis Convention (190). 

10. The Constitutional Convention (190). 



THE CONSTITUTION (The topical outline may be found on page 506). 



WESTWARD GROWTH. 

I. Importance of the struggle between the backwoodsmen and the 



Indians (168-170, 183) 
Settlement of the Mississippi Valley (213-218). 
The purchase of Louisiana (220). 
Lewis and Clark's expedition (221). 
The use of the steamboat on Western waters (223). 
The National Road (241). 
The Erie Canal (245). 

The railroad and the rapid growth of the West (258, 259), 
Speculation in Western lands (260). 
Our claims to Oregon (269). 
The aimexation of Texas (274). 
The Mexican cession (277). 
California (279-283). 

Influence of the West in favor of nationalism (293-294). 
Influence of the pubUc lands on our national growth (373). 
Westward expansion (374). 
The Mormons in Utah (376). 
The Pacific railroads (378). 

The arid region and the problem of irrigation (380), 
Forest reservations (381). 
Oklahoma made a State (397). 
Arizona and New Mexico admitted into the Union (438) 



TERRITORIAL EXPANSION. 

1. The United States at the close of the Revolution (183). 

2. The purchase of Louisiana (220). 

3. The purchase of Florida (239). 

4. The annexation of Texas (274). 

5. Settlement of conflicting claims to the Oregon country (269-273). 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 



497 



xn. 



XIV. 



6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 

lO. 



The Mexican cession (277). 

The Gadsden Purchase (278). 

The purchase of Alaska (384). 

Hawaii annexed to the United States (401). 

The Spanish cessions of 1898 (417). 



MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND 



XIII. 



DEVELOPMENT OF 
COMMUNICATION. 

1. Modes of travel and communication in colonial days (117). 

2. The fiatboat (217). 

3. The trail and the pack-horse (217). 

4. Steamboat navigation (222, 223). 

5. The National Road (241). 

6. The Erie Canal (245). 

7. The railroad (257, 258). 

8. Ocean steamships (264). 

9. The telegraph (267). 

10. The Atlantic cable (382). 

11. The telephone (389). 

12. The Panama Canal (423). 

13. The Pacific cable (424). 

14. Wireless telegraphy (424). 

15. Electricity in modern life (478). 

16. The automobile; the flying machine (479, 480). 

SOME USEFUL INVENTIONS. 

1. The cotton-gin (204). 

2. Friction matches (264). 

3. The reaping machine (264, 375). 

4. The combined reaper and thresher (375). 

5. The steam-driven gang-plow (376). 

6. The railroad (257). 

7. The telegraph (267). 

8. The sewing machine, the spiiming machine, and the power loom 

(472). 

9. The Bessemer process of making steel (473). 

10. The automobile and the flying machine (479, 480). 

SLAVERY. 

1. Slavery in the colonies (34, 35, iii, 112). 

2. Slavery in the Constitution — the Three-fifths Compromise, the 

importation of slaves, and fugitive slaves (190, 487, 490; 
Amendments, Articles XIII, 517; XTV, 518). 

3. The cotton-gin and slavery (204). 

4. The Missouri Compromise (244). 

5. Slavery and the tariff (253). 

6. The AboUtionists (271-273). 



498 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 



Texas and the Mexican War (274-277). 
The Wilmot Proviso (278). 
The Compromise of 1850 (281-283). 
The Fugitive Slave Law (284). 
The Underground Railroad (285). 
The Kansas-Nebraska Bill (287-289). 
The Dred Scott Decision (294). 
John Brown's raid (296). 
Abraham Lincoln and slavery (299). 
The Emancipation Proclamation (330). 

The Thirteenth, the Fourteenth, and the Fifteenth Amendments 
(351. 359. 360). 



XV. STATE RIGHTS, NULLIFICATION, AND SECESSION. 

1. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (211), 

2. Calhoun and nullification (253). 

3. Webster and the Union (254). 

4. Jackson's feeling toward nullification (255). 

5. South Carolina and State rights (255). 

6. The State first in the South (300). 

7. The Union first in the North (301). 

8. State rights, nullification, and secession swept away by the Civil 

War (352). 



XVI. RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH. 

1. President Johnson's plan of restoring the seceded States (357). 

2. The freedmen and Southern legislation (358). 

3. The Congressional plan of reconstruction (358). 

4. The work of reconstruction complete (359). 

5. President Hayes withdraws the troops from the South (365). 

6. The New South (367). 

7. The Atlanta Exposition (369). 

8. The freedmen and education (370). 



XVII. THE TARIFF. 

1. H. tariff laid on foreign trade (203). 

2. A tariff for revenue with incidental protection (252). 

3. A protective tariff (252). 

4. South Carolina objects to a high protective tariff (252'). 

5. New England manufacturers and the protective tariff (254). 

6. The tariff question (404, 405). 

7. The " Dingley Tariff " (408, 418, 423). 

8. The Payne-Aldrich Tariff (435). 

9. Tariff revision in 1913 (442). 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 499 

XVm. CURRENCY AND BANKING. 

1. Jackson and the United States Bank (256, 257). 

2. Pet Banks (257). 

3. "Wild-Cat Banking (260). 

4. The Specie Circular (261). 

5. The Independent Treasury (263). 

6. Greenbacks during the Civil War (391). 

7. The Resumption of Specie Payment (390). 

8. Silver Legislation (403). 

9. Free Silver and the Tariff (407). 

XIX. POLITICAL PARTIES. 

1. The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists (191, 209). 

2. The Democrats-Republicans (209, 211, 213, 230). 

3. The Federalist Party and the War of 1812 (230, 236, 237). 

4. The Democrats and the National Republican Party (248). 

5. William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionists (271-273). 

6. The Free Soil Party and the Anti-Nebraska Men (278). 

7. The Whig Party (290). 

8. The Republican Party (290, 299, 358, 360, 389, 404, 407, 425, 

435, 439, 449)- 

9. The Democratic Party (299, 365, 389, 404, 407, 425, 439, 449). 

XX. WARS (The topics bearing upon wars may be found in a convenient 
form in the " Topical Outline of American History," which is included 
in the book). 

1. Indian wars (84, 85, 103, 228). 

2. The first three intercolonial wars (54). 

3. The last French war (94-103). 

4. The Revolution (126-183). 

5. The War of 181 2 (229-238). 

6. The Mexican War (275-277). 

7. The Civil War (305-352). 

8. The Spanish-American War (411-417). 

9. The United States and the Great War in Europe (451-468). 

XXI. TREATIES. 

1. Treaty of pea«.e between France and England in 1763 (103). 

2. Treaty of alliance with France in 1778 (164). 

3. Treaty of peace with England in 1783 (183). 

4. Jay's treaty with England in 1795 (208). 

5. Treaty of peace with Tripoli in 1805 (222). 

6. Treaty of peace with England in 1814 (238). 

7. Oregon boundary dispute settled by treaty in 1846 (271). 

8. The treaty of peace with Mexico in 1848 (277). 

9. The treaty of peace with Spain in 1899 (417). 

10. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty in 1901 (423). 



500 TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 

XXII. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. 

1. The principal features of the Monroe Doctrine (240, 241). 

2. Maximilian in Mexico (345). 

3. The Anglo-Venezuelan difficulty and the Monroe Doctrine 

(405, 406). 

4. The United States and the trouble in Mexico (444). 

XXm. THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE SINCE i860. 

1. The Trent affair (309). 

2. England resents the capture of Mason and Slidell (309). 

3. England and King Cotton; the blockade (311). 

4. The battle of Gettysburg and recognition of the independence 

of the South by England and France (326). 

5. The sympathy of English working-men with the South (343). 

6. England and the Confederate navy; settlement of the "Alabama 

Claims " (343). 

7. Napoleon III and the Confederate navy (344). 

8. Trouble with Italy (398). 

9. The Bering Sea trouble settled by arbitration (400). 

10. The Anglo-Venezuelan difficulty and the Monroe Doctrine (405). 

11. The Spanish-American War (411-417). 

12. China and the "Open Door" (420). 

13. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty (423). 

14. President Roosevelt as peacemaker (425). 

15. The Second Peace Conference (427). 

16. The United States and the Spanish-American "War (417, 429). 

17. The United States a world power (429). 

18. The growth of foreign trade (451, 452). 

XXIV. THE UNITED STATES AND THE GREAT WAR IN EUROPE, 
1914- 

1. Protest to Great Britain and Germany on extensions of contra- 

band and blockade (452). 

2. The United States and German submarine warfare (453-457). 

3. War between the United States and the Imperial German Gov- 

ernment declared (457). 

4. The United States co-operates with the Powers allied against 

Germany (457, 458, 461, 466). 

5. The whole nation at war (458, 459). 

6. The Army Draft Bill (460). 

7. Meeting the expenses of the war (462). 

8. The United States Mission to Russia (462). 

9. The government operation and control of railroads (464). 

10. The United States Navy and merchant shipping (466, 467). 

11. Patriotic spirit of the American people (467, 468). 

XXV. THE PRESIDENTS (For this outline see Appendix D). 



TOPICAL REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 501 

XXVI. PRESENT-DAY PROBLEMS. 

1. Struggle for popular control of public affairs (439). 

2. The tariff (203, 252, 254, 404, 405, 407, 408, 418, 423, 425, 435, 

439, 442). 

3. Conservation of natural resources (433). 

4. Railroad rate regulation (474). 

5. Trusts and the regulation of trusts (475). 

6. Special training for the farm and for modern industry (449, 482), 

7. The education of women; woman suffrage (482). 

8. Immigration (259, 290, 291, 372, 373, 450, 486). 

9. Civil service reform (392, 393, 486). 

10. Municipal reform (439, 480). 

11. The strife between capital and labor (448, 486). 

12. Prohibition (264, 265, 450). 



APPENDIX A 
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 

The following preamble and specifications, known as the Declaration of Inde- 
nendence, accompanied the resolution of Richard Henry Lee, which was adopted by 
Congress on the 2d day of July, 1776. This declaration was agreed to on the 4th, 
and the transaction is thus recorded in the Journal for that day : 

" Agreeably to t/ie order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee 
of the whole, to take into their further consideration the Declaration ; and, after 
some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. Harrison reported that the 
committee had agreed to a Declaration, which they desired him to report. Thu 
Declaration being read, 7Cias agreed to as follo%vs : " 

A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. 

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to 
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to as- 
sume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the 
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions 
of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the 
separation. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident — that all men are created equal ; that 
they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ; that among these 
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, gov- 
ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of 
the governed ; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of 
these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new 
government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers 
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. 
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be 
changed for light and transient causes ; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown 
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufTerable, than to right 
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a 

502 



THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 503 

long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces 
a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, 
to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. 
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity 
which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history 
of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, 
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these 
States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. 

1. lie has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for 
the public good. 

2. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing im- 
portance, unless suspended in their operations till his assent should be obtained ; 
and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. 

3. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts 
of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the 
Legislature — a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. 

4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, 
and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of 
fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. 

5. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly 
firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. 

6. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be 
elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to 
the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the meantime, ex- 
posed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within. 

7. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that pur- 
pose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass 
others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appro- 
priations of lands. 

8. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to 
laws for establishing judiciary powers. 

9. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure on their otiices, 
and the amount and payment of their salaries. 

10. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, 
to harass our people and eat out their substance. 

11. He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies, without the con- 
sent of our Legislatures. 

12. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the 
civil power. 

13. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our 
constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of 
pretended legislation ; 

14. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; 

15. For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders 
which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States ; 



504 APPENDIX A 

16. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; 

17. For imposing taxes on us without our consent ; 

18. For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of a trial by jury; 

19. For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses; 

20. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, 
establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to 
render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute 
rule into these colonies ; 

21. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and alter- 
ing, fundamentally, the forms of our governments ; 

22. For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested 
with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. 

23. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection,, 
and waging war against us. 

24. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and de- 
stroyed the lives of our people. 

25. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to com- 
plete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances 
of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally un- 
worthy the head of a civilized nation. 

26. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to 
bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their frientis and 
brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. 

27. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to 
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known 
rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. 

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most 
humble terms ; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. 

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, 
is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. 

Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have 
warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an un- 
warrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of 
our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and 
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to 
disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and 
correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consan- 
guinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity whicli denounces our sep- 
aration, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind — enemies in war ; in peace, 
friends. 

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in general 
Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the recti- 
tude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people 
of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, 
and of right ought to be, free and independent States ; that they are absolved 



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505 



from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between 
them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and 
that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude 
peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things 
which independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, 
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to 
each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. 

The foregoing declaration was, by ord^r of Congress, engrossed, and signed by 
the following members : 

JOHN HANCOCK. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

TOSIAH BaRTLETT, 

"William Whipple, 
Matthew Thornton. 

MASSACHUSETTS BAY 
Samuel Adams, 
John Adams, 
Robert Treat Paine, 
Elbridge Gerry. 



RHODE ISLAND. 
Stephen Hopkins, 
William Ellery. 



CONNECTICUT. 
Roger Sherman, 
Samuel Huntington, 
William Williams, 
Oliver Wolcott. 



NEW YORK. 
William Floyd, 
Philip Livingston, 
Francis Lewis, 
Lewis Morris. 



NEW JERSEY. 

Richard Stockton, 
John Witherspoon, 
Francis Hopkinson, 
John Hart, 
Abraham Clark. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Robert Morris, 
Benjamin Rush, 
Benjamin Franklin, 
John Morton, 
George Clymer, 
James Smith, 
George Taylor, 
James Wilson, 
George Ross. 

DELAWARE. 
C^SAR Rodney, 
George Read, 
Thomas M'Kean. 

MARYLAND. 
Samuel Chase, 
William Paca, 
Thomas Stone, 
Charles Carroll of 

Carrollton. 



VIRGINIA. 

George Wythe, 
Richard Henry Lee, 
Thomas Jefferson, 
Benjamin Harrison, 
Thomas Nelson, Jun.. 
Francis Lightfoot Lee, 
Carter Braxton. 

NORTH CAROLINA. 
William Hooper, 
Joseph Hevves, 
John Penn. 

.SOUTH CAROLINA. 
Edward Rutledge, 
Thomas Heyward, Jun., 
Thomas Ly>-ch, Jun., 
Arthur Middleton. 

GEORGIA. 
Button Gwinnett, 
Lyman Hall, 
George Walton. . 



APPENDIX B 



A CHART ON THE CONSTITUTION 



Some Steps' toward the 



' New Enjjland Confederation (1643). 
Franklin's Plan of Union (1754). 
Stamp Act Congress (1765). 
Committees of Correspondence (1772). 
Constitution.. .. .. \ First Meeting of the Continental Congress {177^). 

Declaration of Independence (1776). 
Adoption of Articles of Confederation (1781J. 
Annajiolis Convention (1786). 
^ Constitutional Convention (1787). 



'House of Represent- 
atives 



Legislative 
nient . 



Depart- 



V Senate 



Manner of election. 
Term of office. 
Qualifications. 
Represents the people. 
Census. 

Apportionment. 
^ Speaker the Presiding Officer. 

f Number. 
Manner of election. 
Term of office. 
. X Represents the States. 
Qualifications. 

Sole power to try impeachments. 
Vice-President the Presiding Orticet 



Term of office. 
Manner of election. 

/"President -[ Qualifications. 

Oath of office. 
Executive Depart- J |^ Impeachment, 

ment 1 

I „ , . ^ ( Manner of appointment. 

ICabmet... I N„„,ber. 

\_ Duties. 

f Manner of ajipointment. 

nudges \ Number. 

I ' V Term of office. 

Judicial Department. "i 

I ,, ^- ( Supreme. 

^•^""■■t^ \ Circuit. 

l District. 

50<) 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 



507 



Congress. 



' Time of meeiing. 
Quorum. 
Adjournment. 
Journal. 

How a Bill becomes 
a Law. 



Congress has power — 
To lay ta.xeb. 
To borrow money. 
To regulate commerce. 
To naturalize foreigners. 
To coin money. 

To fi.x standard of weights and measures. 
To establish post-offices. 
To declare war. 
To raise and support armies. 
To provide and maintain a navy. 
To maintain light-houses. 
To make new States. 



President's 
Powers . . 



Commander-in-Chief of 
the army and navy. 

With the advice and 
consent pf the Sen- 
ate makes treaties . 

and appoints J Mniisters. 

Consuls. 



President's 
Duties. . 



Ambassadors. 



'Messages to Con- 
gress. Special 
sessions of Con- 
gress. Receives 
Ambn ssadors. 
Attends to ex- 
ecution of laws. 



I. Judges. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 



We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, 
establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, pro- 
mote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our 
posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of 
America. 

ARTICLE I.— Legislative Department. 

SECTION I. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Con- 
gress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Represent- 
atives. 

SECTION II. Clause i. The House of Representatives shall be composed 
of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the 
electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most 
numerous branch of the State Legislature. 

Clause 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to 
the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, 
and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be 
chosen. 

Clause 3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the sev- 
eral States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective 



5o8 APPENDIX B 

numbers.' which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, 
including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, 
three fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three 
years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every 
subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The num- 
ber of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State 
shall have at least one representative ; and until such enumeration shall be made, 
the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three; Massachusetts, eight ; 
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one ; Connecticut, five ; New York, six ; 
New Jersey, four ; Pennsylvania, eight ; Delaware, one; Maryland, six ; Virginia, 
ten ; North Carolina, five ; South Carolina, five ; and Georgia, three. 

Clause 4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the 
executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 

Clausk 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other 
officers ; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. 

SECTION III. — Clause i. The Senate of the United States shall be com- 
posed of two senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six 
years ; and each senator shall have one vote. 

Clause 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first 
election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of 
the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year ; 
of the second class, at the expiration of the fourth year ; and of the third class, at 
the expiration of the sixth year, so that one third may be chosen every second year ; 
and if vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legis- 
lature of any State, the executive thereof may make temporary appointments until 
the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 

Clause 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the ago 
of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, 
when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 

Clause 4. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the 
Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 

Clause 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro 
tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of 
President of the United States. 

Clause 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. 
When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the 
President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall preside ; and no 
person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members 
present. 

Clause 7 judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to 
removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, 
or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be 

' Under the census of lyio one representative ii apjiortioaod to every ^1^,407 people. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 509 

liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to 
law. 

SECTION IV. — Clause i. The times, places, and manner of holding elections 
for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature 
thereof ; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, 
except as to the places of choosing senators. 

Clause 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such 
meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint 
a different day. 

SECTION V. — Clause i. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, re- 
turns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute 
a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and 
may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, 
and under such penalties, as each house may provide. 

Clause 2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its 
members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a 
member. 

Clause 3. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to 
time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require 
secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question 
shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. 

Clause 4. — Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the 
consent of the other, adjourn for moie than three days, nor to any other place than 
that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. 

SECTION VI. — Clause i. The senators and representatives shall receive a 
compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law and paid out of* the treas- 
ury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony, and 
breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the ses- 
sion of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and 
for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other 
place. 

Clause 2. No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was 
elected, be appointed to any civil 'office under the authority of the United States, 
which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been in- 
creased, during such time ; and no person holding any office under the United States 
shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office. 

SECTION VII. — Clause i. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the 
House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, 
as on other bills. 

Clause 2. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives 
and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the 
United States ; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he ijhall return it, with 



510 APPENDIX B 

his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the 
objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsitier it. If after such re- 
consideration, two thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, 
together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be recon- 
sidered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in 
all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and 
the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the 
journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Presi- 
dent within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, 
the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress 
by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. 

Clause 3. Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the 
Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of 
adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before 
the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, 
shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, accord- 
ing to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. 

SECTION VIII. — Clause i. The Congress shall have power to lay and col- 
lect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common 
defence and general welfare of the United States ; but all duties, imposts, and ex- 
cises shall be uniform throughout the United States ; 

Clause 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; 

Clause 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several 
States, and with the Indian tribes ; 

Clause 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform Taws on 
the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 

Clause 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and 
fix the standard of weights and measures ; 

Clause 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and 
current coin of the United States ; 

Clause 7. To establish post-ofhces and post-roads ; 

Clause 8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for 
limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings 
and discoveries ; 

Clause 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ; 

Clause id. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high 
seas, and offences against the law of nations •, 

Clause II. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make 
rules concerning captures on land and water ; 

Clause 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that 
use shall be for a longer term than two years ; 

Clause 13. To provide and maintain a navy ; 

Clause 14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and 
naval forces ; 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 511 

Clause 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the 
Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions ; 

Clause 16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and 
for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United 
States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the 
authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Con- 
gress : 

Clause 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such 
district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, 
and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United 
States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the 
Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, maga- 
zines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings ; — And 

Clause 18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying 
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitu- 
tion in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer 
thereof. 

SECTION IX. — Clause i. The migration or importation of such persons as 
any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited 
by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax 
or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each 
person. 

Clause 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, 
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 

Clause 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 

Clause 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion 
to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. 

Clause 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State. 

Clause 6. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or rev- 
enue to the ports of one State over those of another ; nor shall vessels bound to, or 
from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 

Clause 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of 
appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the receipts 
and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 

Clause 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States : And no 
person holding any- office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of 
the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind what- 
ever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. 

SECTION X. — Clause i. No State shall enter into any rreaty, afliance, or 
confederation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of 
credit ; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass 
any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairmg the obligation of contracts, 
or grant any title of nobility. 



512 APPEaDIX B 

Clause 2. No State shall, without tlie consent of the Congress, lay any impost 
or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for exe- 
cuting its inspection laws ; and the net produce of all duties and impost, laid by 
any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United 
States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Con- 
gress. 

Clause 3. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of 
tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war, in time of peace, enter into any agreement or 
compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless 
actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. 



ARTICLE II. — Executive Department. 

SECTION I. — Clause i. The executive power shall be vested in a President 
of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during a term of four 
years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected 
as follows : 

Clause 2. Each State sliall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof 
may direct, a number of electors, ecjual to the whole number of senators and repre- 
sentatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress ; but no senator or 
representative, or person holding an otifice of trust or profit under the United States, 
shall be appointed an elector. 

Clause 3.^ 

Clause 4. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and 
the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same through- 
out the United States. 

Clause 5. No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United 
States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office 
of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have 
attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years resident witliin the 
United States. 

Clause 6. — In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, 
resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the 
same shall devolve on the Vice-President, and the Congress may by law provide for 
the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the President and Vice- 
President, declaring what officer shall then act as President ; and such officer shall 
act accordingly until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. 

Clause 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a com- 
pensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for 
which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any 
other emolument from the United States, or any of them. 

Clause 8. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the fol- 

' This clause is no longer in force. .Amendment XII. lias superseded it. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 513 

lowing oath or affirmation : — "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully 
execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my abil- 
ity, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.'' 

SECTION II. — Clause i. The President shall be commander-in-chief of the 
army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when 
called into the actual service of the United States ; he may require the opinion, in 
writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any 
subject relating to the duties of their respective offices ; and he shall have power to 
grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases 
of impeachment. 

Clause 2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur ; and 
he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall ap- 
point, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme 
Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein 
otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress 
may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in 
the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of department. 

Clause 3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may 
happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire 
at the end of their next session. 

SECTION III. — He shall from time to time give to the Congress information 
of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as 
he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may, on extraordinary occasions, con- 
vene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with 
respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall 
think proper ; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall 
take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers 
of the United States. 

SECTION IV.— The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the 
U :ated States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of» 
treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 



ARTICLE III,— Judicial Department. 

SECTION I. — The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one 
Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time 
ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall 
hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their 
services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in 
oilice. 



APPENDIX B 

SECTION II. — Clause i.' The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law 
and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and 
treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority ; — to all cases affecting 
ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls ; — to all cases of admiralty and 
maritime jurisdiction ; — to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; 
— to controversies between two or more States; — between a State and citizens of 
another State ; — between citizens of different States; — between citizens of the same 
State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the 
citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects. 

Clause 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and con- 
suls, and those in which a State shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have orig- 
inal jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall 
have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under 
such regulations as the Congress shall make. 

Clause 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by 
jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been 
committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such 
place or places as the Congress may by law have directed. 

SECTION III. — Clause i. Treason against the United States shall consist 
only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid 
and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of 
two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 

Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason ; 
but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except dur- 
ing the life of the person attainted. 



ARTICLE IV.— General Provisions. 

SECTION I. — Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public 
acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State ; and the Congress may 
by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings 
shall be proved, and the effect thereof. 

SECTION II. — Clause i. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all 
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 

Clause 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, 
who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the 
•executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed 
to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. 

Clause 3. No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws 
thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein, 
be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be ..elivered up on claim of the 
party to whom such service or labor may be due. 

This clause has been modified by .'\meiidincnt XI, 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 515 

SECTION III. Clause i. New States may be admitted by the Congress i**** 

this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction 01 
any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or 
parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as 
well as of the Congress, 

Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needfui 
rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the 
United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prej*"- 
dice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. 

SECTION IV. — The United States shall guarantee to every State in this 
Union a republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against 
invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the executive (when the Leg- 
islature can not be convened), against domestic violence. 



ARTICLE v.— Power of Amendment. 

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, 
shall oropose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the Liegis 
latures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing 
amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, aa 
part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the 
several States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the othe' 
mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress ; provided that no amend- 
ment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eigh-L 
shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of th-s. 
first article ; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal 
suffrage in the Senate, 



ARTICLE VI. — Miscellaneous Provisions. 

Clause i. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adop- 
tion of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this 
Constitution, as under the Confederation. 

Clause 2. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be 
made in pursuance thereof ; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under 
the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the 
judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or 
laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Clause 3. The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members 
of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both ot 
the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation 
to support this Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a quali- 
fication to any office or public trust under the United States. 



5i6 



APPENDIX R 



ARTICLE VII.— Ratification of the Constitution, 

The ratification of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the estab- 
lishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same. 

Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the 
seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United 
States of America the twelfth. 
In witness whereof we have hereunto suljscribed our names. 

GKORGE WASHINGTON, 
Pirsith'ttt, ami Deputy from Virginia. 

CONSENT OF THE STATES PRESENT.^ 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
John Langdon, 
Nicholas Oilman. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 
Nathaniel Gorham, 
RuFus King. 

CONNECTICUT 
William Samuel Johnson, 
Roger Sherman. 



DELAWARE. 
George Read, 
Gunning Bedford, Jr., 
John Dickinson, 
Richard Bassett, 
Jacob Broom. 

MARYLAND. 

James McHenry, 

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 

Daniel Carroll. 



NEW YORK. 
Ale.xander Hamilton. 

NEW JERSEY. 
William Livingston, 
David Brearley, 
William Paterson, 
Jonathan Dayton. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 
Benjamin Franklin, 
Thomas Mifflin, 
Robert Morris, 
George Clvmer, 
Thomas Fitzsimons, 
Jared Ingersql, 
James Wilson, 
Gouverneur Morris. 



Attest . 



VIRGINIA. 
John Blair, 
James Madison, Jr. 

NORTH CAROLINA. 
William Blount, 
Richard Dobbs Spaight, 
High Williamson. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 
John Rutledge, 
Charles C. Pinckney, 
Charles Pinckney, 
Pierce Butler. 

GEORGIA. 
William Few, 
Abraham Baldwin. 
W^ILLIAM T-'^CKSON, Secretary. 



' Rhode Island was not represented in the Federal Convention. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 517 



AMENDMENTS* 

To the Constitution of the United States, Ratified according to the 
Provisions of the Fifth Article of the Foregoing Constitution. 

ARTICLE I. — Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of 
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of 
speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to 
petition the government for redress of grievances. 

ARTICLE II. — A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a 
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 

ARTICLE III. — No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, 
without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be pre- 
scribed by law. 

ARTICLE IV. — The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, 
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio- 
lated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or 
afhrmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or 
things to be seized. 

ARTICLE V. — No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise in- 
famous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grard jury, e.xcept in 
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in 
time of war and public danger ; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence 
to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall be compelled in any criminal 
case to be a witness against himself, nor to be deprived of life, liberty, or property, 
without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use 
without just compensation. 

ARTICLE VI. — In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right 
to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein 
the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously 
ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation ; 
to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have compulsory process for 
obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his 
defence. 

ARTICLE VII. — In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall 
exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried 
by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than 
according to the rules of common law. 

ARTICLE VIII. — Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines im- 
posed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 

' Amendments I. to X. were declared in force December 15, 1791. 



Si8 APPENDIX B 

ARTICLE IX. — The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not 
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 

ARTICLE X. — The powers not delegated to the United States by tlie Constitu- 
tion, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectiveiy, or to 
the people. 

ARTICLE XI. ^ — The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed 
to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the 
United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreigr» 
state. 

ARTICLE XII. ^ — The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote 
by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an 
inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; they shall name in their ballots the 
person voted for as President, and indistinct ballots the person voted for as Vice- 
President ; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, 
and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, 
which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the govern- 
ment of the United States, directed to the president of the Senate ; — the president 
of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted ; — the person having 
the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number 
be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have 
such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding 
three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall 
choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the 
votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote ; 
a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of 
the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if 
the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of 
choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, 
then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other 
constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number 
of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority 
of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then 
from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-Presi- 
dent ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of 
senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But 
no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that 
of Vice-President of the United States. 

ARTICLE XIII.' — Section i. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, ex- 
cept as a punishment for crime, whereof the person shall have been duly convicted, 
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

1 Declared in torce January 8. 171)8. - Declared in force September 25, 1804. 

''Declared in force December 18, 1865. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 519 

Section 2. Congress shall have i;o\ver to enforce this article by appropriate 
legislation. 

ARTICLE XIV. 1 — Section i. All persons born or naturalized in the United 
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States 
and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law 
which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ; 
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due 
process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection 
of the laws. 

Section 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several States accord- 
ing to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each 
State excluding Indians not ta.xed. But when the right to vote at any election for 
the choice of electors for President and \'ice-President of the United States, repre- 
sentatives in Congress, the executive or judicial officers of a State, or the members 
of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, 
being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way 
abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of represen- 
tation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male 
citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in 
such State. 

Section 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in Congress, or 
elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under 
the United States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a 
member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any 
State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the 
Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion 
against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress 
may, by a vote of two thirds of each house, remove such disability. 

Sf-Ction 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by 
law, including debts incurred for payment of pension and bounties for services in 
suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the 
United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in 
aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the 
loss or emancipation of any slave ; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall 
be held illegal and void. 

.Section 5. The Corgress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legisla- 
tion, the provisions of this article. 

ARTICLE XV. 2 — Section i. The rights of citizens of the United States to 
vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on 
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate 
legislation. 

' Declared in f->rce July 28, 1898. - Declared in force March 30, 1870, 



520 



APPENDIX B 



ARTICLE XVI. — The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on 
incomes from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several 
States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. 

ARTICLE XVIl'— Section i. The Senate of the United States shall be com- 
posed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for si.x years; 
and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the 
qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State 
legislature. 

Section 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the 
Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such 
vacancies: Provided that the legislature of any State may empower the executive 
thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by 
election as the legislature may direct. 

Section 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election 
or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. 

' Declared in force February 25, 1913- ' Declared in force May 31, 1913. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 521 



TO THE PUPIL 

1. What colonies united to form the New England Confederation, and 

what were its purposes and results ? What was Franklin's plan of 
Union, and why was it not adopted ? What did the Stamp Act Con- 
gress do ? What was the leading object of the Committees of Cor- 
respondence ? 

2. Under what circumstances was the first meeting of the Continental 

Congress held ? What led the colonies to adopt the Declaration of 
Independence ? 

3. When did the States adopt the Articles of Confederation? Explain 

the weakness of the central governing power, Congress, under the 
Articles of Confederation. Tell what you can about the Annapolis 
Convention ; the Constitutional Convention. 

4. Under the Constitution, what are the three departments of our gov- 

ernment ? Which of them makes the laws ? Which sees that they 
are carried out ? Which interprets them and tries cases arising 
under them ? 

5. Of what does the legislative department consist ? How are members 

of the House of Representatives elected ? For how long ? What 
are their qualific '^ions ? 

6. How many people does each member of the House represent ? What 

is the unit of representation ? How can you find the number of rep- 
resentatives in any State ? How many in your own ? Why ? 

7. What do the Senators represent ? How are they elected and for what 

term of office ? What are their qualifications ? 

8. What exclusive functions has the House ? the Senate ? 

9. What are the qualifications of the President ? How is he elected ? 

For what term of office is he elected ? What is meant by the im- 
peachment of the President ? 

10. What is the President's Cabinet ? How many members had Wash- 

ington's Cabinet ? How many in the Cabinet now ? What are the 
duties of the Cabinet officers ? 

1 1. Name the three kinds of national courts. How many judges are there 

in the Supreme Court ? How are they appointed and w^hat is their 
term of office ? Why should we have national courts ? 

12. Explain the three courses which a bill must take in order to become a 

law. Name the powers of Congress enumerated in the chart. 

13. What military power has the President ? How are treaties and im- 

portant appointments made P What duties of the President arc 
named in the chart ? 



APPENDIX C 
TABLE 1 OF STATKS AND TERRITORIES 



No. 



Name. 



Date of 
Admission. 



Area in 
Square 
Miles. 



Represent- 
atives in 
Congress, 
1914 



Electoral 
\otcs,' 
1912 



I 
2 
3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 
10 
II 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 

17 
18 

19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 



Delaware"' 

Pennsylvania. . . 
New Jersey. . . . 

Georgia 

Connecticut .... 
Massachusetts. . 

Maryland 

South Carolina. 
New Hampshire 

Virginia 

New York 

North Carolina. 
Rhode Island. . . 

Vermont 

Kentucky 

Tennessee 

Oh*io 

Louisiana 

Indiana 

Mississippi 

Illinois 

Alabama 

Maine 

Missouri 

Arkansas 

Michigan 

Florida 

Texas 



1787 
1787 
1787 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1788 
1789 
1 7 go 
1791 
1792 
1796 
1802 
1812 
1816 
1817 
1818 
1819 
1820 
1821 
1836 
1837 
1845 
1845 



2,050 
45,215 

7,81s 
59,475 

4,990 

8,315 
12,210 

30,570 
9,305 
42,450 
49,170 
52,250 
1.250 

9,565 
40.400 
42,050 
41,060 
48,720 
36,350 
46,810 
56,650 
52.250 
33,040 
69,415 
53,850 
58,Qi5 
58680 
265,780 



I 
36 
12 
12 

5 

16 

6 

7 

2 

10 

43 
10 

3 

2 

II 

10 

22 

8 

13 
8 

27 
10 

4 
16 

7 
13 

4 
18 



3 
38 
14 
14 

7 

18 
8 
9 
4 

12 

45 
12 

5 

4 

13 

12 

24 
10 

15 
10 

29 
12 

6 
18 

9 
15 

6 
20 



•- The population, the capital, and the largest city of each State may be found on the map between 
pages 420 and 421. 

•In 1012 the total number of representatives in ConRrcss was 4,?5. .^dd to this number 90 lor 
the number of senators in the Senate, and the result is 5.?i Electoral votes. 

•The dates opposite the first thirteen— the "Original Thirteen "—mdicate the year when the 
States ratified the Constitution. 

522 



TABLE OF STATES AND TERRITORIES 



523 



No. 



Name. 



Date of 
Admission. 



Area in 
Square 
Miles. 



Represent- 
atives in 
Congress, 
1914 



Electoral 
Votes,' 
1912 



29 
30 
31 
32 

33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 

41 

42 

43 
44 
45 
46 

47 
48 



Iowa 1846 

Wisconsin 1848 

California 1850 

Minnesota 1858 

Oregon 1859 

Kansas 1861 

West Virginia 1863 

Nevada 1864 

Nebraska 1867 

Colorado 1876 

North Dakota 1889 

South Dakota 1889 

Montana 1889 

Washington 1899 

Idaho 1890 

Wyoming 1890 

Utah 1896 

Oklahoma 1907 

New Mexico 191 2 

Arizona 191 2 

Alaska .... 

District of Columbia .... 

Hawaii 



56,025 

56,040 

158,360 

83,365 
96,030 
82,080 
24,780 
110,700 

77,510 
103,925 

70,795 

77,650 

146,080 

69,180 

84,800 

97,890 

84,970 

70,430 

122,580 

113,020 

577,390 

70 

6.740 



II 
II 
II 
10 

3 
8 
6 
I 
6 
4 
3 
3 
2 

5 
2 
I 
2 
8 
I 
I 



13 
13 
13 
12 

5 
10 



6 
5 
5 
4 
7 
4 
3 
4 
10 

3 
3 



'■ See note 2 on opposite page. 



APPENDIX D 
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 



President. 


State. 


By Whom 
Elected. 


Term of Office. 


George Washington 


Virginia 


Whole people. 


Two terms ; 1789-1797. 


John Adams 

Thomas Jefterson 


Massachusetts... 


Federalists. 


One term ; 1797 1801. 


Virginia 


Dem.-Rep. 


Two terms ; 1801-1809. 




Virginia 

Virginia 

Massachusetts.... 


Dem.-Rep. 
Dem.-Rep. 
Rep 


Two terms; 1809-1817. 


janies Monroe 


Two terms ; 1817-1825. 


John Quincy Adams 


One term; 1825-1829. 


Andrew Jackson 


Tennessee 


Dem 


Two terms ; 1829-1837. 


Martin Van Buren ' 


New York 


Dem 


One term ; 1837-1841. 


Wilham Henry Harrison 


Ohio 


Whigs 


One month ; 1841. 


John Tyler 


Virginia 


Whigs 


3 yrs. II mos. ; 1841- 
1845- 


James Knox Polk 


Tennessee 


Dem 


One term ; 1845-1849. 


Zachary Taylor 


Louisiana 


Whigs .... 


I yr. 4 mos. ; 1849, 1850. 


Millard Fillmore 


New York 

New Hampshire. 
Pennsylvania . . . 


Whigs .... 

Dem 

Dem 


2 vrs. 8 mos. ; 1850- 


Franklin Pierce 


1853. 
One term ; 1853-1857. 


James Buchanan 


One term ; 1857-1861. 


Abraham Lincoln 


Illinois 


Rep 


One term and 6 wks. ; 
1861-1865. 


Andrew Johnson 


Tennessee 


Rep 


3 yrs. 10 mos. ; 1865- 
1869. 


Ulysses Simpson Grant 

Rutherford Burchard Haves. 


Illinois 


Rep 


Two terms ; 1869-1877. 


Ohio 


Rep 


One term ; 1877-1881. 


James Abraham Garfield 


Ohio 


Rep 


6 mos. 15 days ; 1881. 


Chester Alan Arthur 


New York 


Rep 


3 yrs 5 mos., 15 days ; 
18^1-1885. 


Grover Cleveland 


New York 

Indiana 

New York 

Ohio 


Dem 

Rep 

Dem 

Rep 


One term ; 1885-1889. 


Benjamin Harrison 


One term ; 1889-1893. 


Grover Cleveland 


One term ; 1893-1897. 


William McKinley 


One term and 61^ mos. • 






1897-1901. 


Theodore Roosevelt 


New York 


Rep 


3 yrs. 5% mos. and one 
term ; 1901-1909. 


William Howard Taft . . 


Ohio 


Ren 


One term; 1909-1913. 


Woodrow Wilson 


New Jersey 


Dem." 


Two terms; 1913-1917; 




1917- 



524 



INDEX 



Abolitionists, 271-273 

Acadians, removal of, 99 

Adams, John, 149; presidencj^ of, 209- 
212; sketch and portrait, 209 

Adams, J. Q., sketch, 245; portrait, 246; 
presidency of, 245-248; defends the 
right of petition, 273 

Adams, Samuel, 138-140; 143, 149; por- 
trait, 149 

Africa, 2, 432 

Agricultural colleges, 4S3 

Agriculture, in Colonial times, 34, 35, 
39-41, 106, III, 1 13; in the South, 253, 
367; in the West, 375-377, 380, 381; 
experiment stations in, 483; model 
farms in, 483 

Aguinaldo's rebellion, 420 

Alabama Claims, 344 

Alabama, Confederate cruiser, 344 

Alabama, secedes, 302 

Alaska, purchase of, 384 

Albany (Fort Orange), 64- 

Albany Plan of Union, 121, 122. Sec 
also Franklin's Plan of Union 

Algeria, 222 

Algonquin Indians, 76, 89, 94 

Alien and Sedition Laws, 211 



Alleghany Mountains, 94, 168, 169 

Alleghany River, 96 

Allen, Ethan, 145 

Allies, 448 

Alsace and Lorraine, 431 

America, naming of, 8; found to be a 
continent, 9 

Americus Vespucius, 8, 9 

Amsterdam, New, 64 

Amusement, in Colonial times, no, 112, 
113, 116 

Anaesthetics, discovered, 268 

Anderson, Major, 305, 306 

Andre (an'dra), John, 178, 179 

Andros, Sir Edmund, 59-61, 68 

Antietam, battle of. 324 

Anti-Federalist Party, 191, 209 

Appomattox Court House, Lee surren- 
ders at, 347 

Arbitration, 400, 401, 406, 407; court of, 
428, 436 

Arbitration treaties, general, 436; of 
United States with Great Britain and 
France, 436 

Arc light, 480 

Arid region, 380, 381 

Arizona, 438 







KEY TO 


PRONUNCIATION.* 


a 


as in fat. 




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as in note. 


u as in mute. 


a 


" " fate. 




e " " her. 


" " move. 


ii German ii. French u. 


a 


" " far. 




i ■' " pin. 


" " nor. 


oi as in oil. 


a 


" " fare. 




i " " pine. 


u " " tub. 


ou " " pound. 


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INDEX 



Arkansas, 354 

Armada, Spanish, 21 

Armistcad (ar'mis-ted), General, 328 

Army, Continental, 145, 147 

Arnold, Benedict, 145, 157, 159, 163; 

his treason, 177-179 
Arthur, Chester A., sketch, 392, 393; 

portrait, 392 
Articles of Confederation, 185-188 
Ashburton Treaty, 354 
Asia, European trade with, i 
Astoria, 269 
Atlanta Exposition, 369 
Atlantic Cable, 382, 383 
Atlantic Fleet, 427 
Atlantic Ocean, feared by sailors, 3 
Australia, 432 

Australian Ballot System, 400 
Austro-Hungary, 431 
Automobile, 480 

Bacon's Rebellion, 37 

Bahama Islands, Columbus at, 6 

Balboa discovers the Pacific, 18 

Baltimore attacked by the British, 234 

Baltimore, Lord, 37, 38 

Bancroft, George, 486 

Bank, United States, 256, 257 

Bank notes, 260, 261, 262 

Barbary States, war with, 222 

Barclay, Captain, defeated by Perr>' on 

Lake Erie, 233 
Beauregard (bo're-gard). General, 305 
Bell, A. G., 389 
Bennington, battle of, 158, 159 
Benton, Thomas IL, 255 
Bering Sea trouble, 400, 401 
Berkeley, Sir William, 36, 37 
Bessemer process, 454, 455 
Blacklists, 395 
Bladensburg, 234 
Blaine, James G., 398, 400 
Blanco, Governor-General, 411 
Bland Silver Bill, 403 
Blockade, during War of 181 2, 231, 232; 

during Civil War, 31 1-3 14; block- 



ade of Cuban coast, 414; blockade of 
Vera Cruz, 440; of Great War, 448, 449 

lion Ilommc R'nhard (bo-nom're-shar'), 
173 

Boone, Daniel, 169 

Border ruffians, 289 

"Boston Massacre," 138 

Boston, settled, 48; evacuated bj- the 
British, 148 

Boundaries of the United States in 
1783, 183; Northwest, 269-271; South- 
west, 277 

Bowling Green, 315 

Boycott, 395 

Braddock, General, his defeat, 98 

Bradford, Governor, 46 

Bragg, General, 334 

Brandywine, battle of the, 162 

Breckenridge, John C, 299 

Brewster, Inkier, 46 

Brooklj'n Bridge, 394 

Brooks, Preston S., assaults Charles 
Sumner, 289, 290 

"Brotherhoods," 448 

Brown, General, 233 

Brown, John, at Harper's Ferry, 296 

Bryan, William J., 407, 418 

Bryant, William Cullen, 486 

Buchanan (bu-kan'an), James, sketch, 
294; portrait, 294; presidency of, 
294-304 

Buell, General, 316 

Buena Vista, battle of, 354 

BufTalo, 245, 419 

Bull Run, first battle of, 307, 308; sec- 
ond battle of, 323 

Bunker Hill, battle of, 146, 147 

BurgoNTie (ber-goin'), General, his in- 
vasion, 157-164; his surrender, 163 

Burnside, General, 324 

Burr, Aaron , 2 1 3 ; his conspiracy, 223,224 

Butler, General, 317, 331 

Cabinet, the President's, 200, 395 
Cable, Atlantic, 382, 383; Pacific, 424, 
425 



INDEX 



527 



Cabot, John, seeks the Northwest Pas- 
sage, 6, 8 

Cabot, Sebastian, explores the coast of 
North America, 8 

Cahokia, 169 

Calhoun, John C, and nullification, 
253> 254; portrail, 253 

California seeks admission to the Union, 
281; admitted to the Union, 354 

Cambridge, 51 

Camden, battle of, 175 

Canada, 87, 88, 102, 145, 432, 433 

Canal, Isthmian, 423; Erie, 245, 246 

Canary Islands, Columbus at, 4 

Canonicus, 47, 55 

Cape Cod, 46 

Cape of Good Hope, 2 

Cape Verde Islands, Cervera's fleet at, 

413 
Carolina, North and South, 41 
Carpet-bag rule, 360, 361 
Carranza, 446, 447 
Carteret, 73 
Cartier (kar-tya'), 87 
Carver, John, 46 
Catholics, 37, 39 
Cavaliers, 36, 112 
Cedar Creek, battle of, 339 
Centennial Exhibition, 388, 389 
Central America, 398 
Cervera, Admiral, 413, 414, 417 
Chambersburg, 339 
Champlain (sham-plan'), 87-89, 123 
Champlain, Lake, 88, 97, 123, 151, 157, 

234 
Chancellorsville, battle of, 325 
Charles I., 42, 43-47, 48 
Charles II., 42, 43, 58, 59, 70 
Charleston, 305 
Charlestown, 48, 147 
Charter, 28, 38, 45, 54, 60, 64, 70 
Charter Oak, 60 
Chattanooga, battle of, 335, 336 
Cherokee Indians, 75, 385 
Chesapeake, Leopard fires upon, 225, 

226 



Chicago, 260 

Chickamauga, battle of, t,2>3^ 334 

Chickasaw Indians, 75, 385 

Chili, trouble with, 398 

China and the "open door," 420 

Chinese immigration, 377, 378 

Chippewa (chip'e-wa), battle of, 233, 

353 

Choctaw Indians, 385 

Christian Commission, 350 

Church of England, 44 

Cities, growth of, 481; government of, 
481 ; commission form of government, 
439; populations, 481 

Civil rights, of the freedmen, 358 

Civil service reform, 392, 393 

Civil War, principal steps toward, 301, 
302; principal events of, 305-348; 
results of, 351, 352 

Clark, George Rogers, in the North- 
west, 169, 170, 183 

Clay, Henry, 244, 256 

Clermont, 223 

Cleveland, Grover, sketch, 393; por- 
trait, 393; 402, 404 

Clinton, DeWitt, and Erie Canal, 245 

Clinton, General, 163, 166, 175, 176, 
178, 182 

Coal, 472; use of anthracite, 474 

Cold Harbor, battle of, 337 

Coligny (ko-len'ye), 15, 122 

Colleges, 482 

Colombia, Republic of, 423 

Colonies, life in the, at the close of the 
French and Indian Wars, 105-117; 
groups of, 105, 118, 119 

Colorado, 381 

Colored troops in the Civil War, 332 

Columbia River, 269, 270 

Columbia University, 114 

Columbian Exposition, 402 

Columbus, Christopher, his plans, 3; 
portrait, 3; his difiiculties, 4; first 
voyage of, 4; trials on his first voy- 
age, 5; discovers America, 6; other 
voyages, 6; last days, 6 



528 



INDEX 



Commerce, American, i86, 478, 479 
Commission form of government, 439, 

440 
Committees of Correspondence, 138 
Common storehouse, in Virginia, 29, 32 
Compass, mariner's, 2 
Compromise, Missouri, 244; with South 

Carolina, 256; of 1850, 283, 284 
Concentration, 411 
Concord, battle of, 142-145 
Confederate States of America, organi- 
zation of, 302 
Confederation, Articles of, 185-188 
Congress, Acts of, -Alien and Sedition 
Laws, 211; Embargo, 227; National 
Road, 241, 242; ]\Iissouri Compro- 
mise, 244; Tariff of 1816, 252; Tariff 
of 1828, 253; Compromise of 1850, 
283, 284; Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 287, 
288; Reconstruction, 358, 359; Ten- 
ure of Office, 360; Homestead Bill, 
374; Civil Service Reform, 393; 
Presidential Succession, 394, 395; 
i^ension Bill, 397; Bland Silver Bill, 
403; Sherman Act, 403; McKinley 
Bill, 404; Wilson Bill, 405; Dingley 
Bill, 408; Isthmian Canal Act, 423; 
Payne- Aldrich Tariff Bill, 435; Postal 
Savings Banks, 436; Parcel Post, 441 ; 
Currency and Banking Law, 442; 
Tariff of 1913; Income Tax, 442; 
Rural Roads Act, 449; Food Con- 
trol Bill, 459; Army Draft Bill, 460; 
Aviation Bill, 462; Interstate Com- 
merce, 475; Federal Trade Com- 
mission, 476; Sherman Anti-Trust 
Law, 478 
Congress, Continental, first meeting of, 
141; second meeting of, 145; has lit- 
tle power, 167, 168, 185-187 
Connecticut, early history of, 50-54; 

and the Northwest Territory, 188 
Conscription, North, 332; South, ^^^ 
Conservation of Natural Resources, 433 
Constitution captures the Giierriere, 231 
Constitution of the United States, 



events leading to, 189; ratified, 190; 

slavery compromises in, 190; strict 

and liberal construction of, 200 
Constitutional Convention, 190 
Continental currency, 168 
Conway Cabal, 165, 166 
Cooper, James Fcnimore, 485 
Co-operation among nations, 433 
Cornwallis, General, 154, 176, 179-183 
Coronado, 122 
Cortez conquers Mexico, 18 
Cotton export, 311, 367-369 
Cotton-gin, invention of, 204, 205 
Court of Arbitration, 428 
Cowpens, battle of, 179, 180 
Creek Indians, 385 
Creek Indians, war with, 235 
Creve-Coeur (krev-ker'), 91 
Crimes and punishments, 109, 115 
Cromwell, Oliver, 43 
Crown Point, Fort, loi; Americans 

capture, 145; Burgoyne captures, 

157 
Cuba, island of, 6, 286, 410 
Cuba, Republic of, 421-423 
Cuban Reciprocity Act, 423 
Cubans rise against Spain, 410 
Cumberland destroyed by the Merrimac, 

Cumberland River, 315 
Cunard Steamship Line, 264 
Cushing, Lieutenant, 328 

Dakota, North, 375 

Dakota, South, 375 

Dale, Sir Thomas, 32 

Darien, Isthmus of, 18 

Daughters of Liberty, 131 

Davenport, John. 52 

Davis, Jefferson, sketch, 302; portrait, 
302; elected President of the Confed- 
eracy, 303; flight and capture of, 348 

Dawes Act, 3S6 

Dawes, William, 143 

Declaration of Independence, 148-150 

"Decrees," 226 



INDEX 



529 



De Kalb (de kalb), John, 165 

Delaware, early history of, 74 

Delaware, Lord 32 

Democratic Party, 209, 248, 299, 404, 
407, 418 

Democratic-Republican Party, 209, 211, 
230 

Deposits, removal of, 257 

De Soto (so'to), lands in Florida, 14; 
discovers the Mississippi, 15; por- 
trait, 16 

Detroit, 232 

Dewey, Admiral George, 412, 413 

Diaz, 2 

Dingley Tariff, 408 

Dinwiddle, Governor, 96 

Discoveries, by Portugal, 2, 8; by the 
Spaniards, 4-6, 13-15, 18, 19; by the 
English, 8; by the Dutch, 63; by the 
French, 87-91 

Discovery, aids to, i 

District of Columbia, slavery in, 283 

Dorchester Heights, 148 

Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island, 354 

Douglas, Stephen A., 288, 299 

Dover (N. H.), 62 

Draft riots, 332 

Drake, Sir Francis, 22, 26 

Dred Scott decision, 294, 295 

Dutch, in New Netherland, 63-68; rea- 
sons for their failure, 68 

Dutch West India Company, 64 

Eads, Captain, and the Mississippi jet- 
ties, 366 

Early, General, his raid in the Shenan- 
doah, 338 

Eaton, Theophilus, 52 

Education, 109, in, 112, 114, 482, 483 

El Caney, 416 

Electoral Commission, 389, 390 

Electoral Count Bill, 390 

Electricity, 459 

Elizabeth, Queen, 20, 23, 27 

Emancipation Proclamation, 330, 331 

Embargo, 227 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 486 

Endicott, John, 47 

England, her need of America, 25; and 
the American Revolution, 126-183; 
impresses American seamen, 225; in- 
jures American commerce, 226; and 
the Civil War, 309-311 and 343^345; 
and Venezuela, 405-407; friendship 
of, 407; a colonizing nation, 431, 432 

Era of good feeling, 247 

Ericsson, John, and the Monitor, 313 

Ericsson, Leif, 11 

Erie Canal, 245 

Erie, Lake, battle of, 232, 233 

Eutaw Springs, battle of, 192 

Expansion, territorial: backwoodsmen 
in the Revolution, 1 69-1 71; purchase 
of Louisiana, 220; purchase of Flor- 
ida, 239; annexation of Texas, 274; 
Mexican Cession and Gadsden Pur- 
chase, 277, 278; purchase of Alaska, 
384; Hawaii annexed, 401; Spanish 
cessions in 1899, 417 

Exploration, Portuguese, 2; Spanish, 
4-6, 9, 13-15, 18, 19; English, 8, 23, 
26, 27, 30; Dutch, 63; French, 87- 
92; Lewis and Clark, 221, 222 

Exports, 451, 452, 478, 479 

Express companies, 441 

Factory System, 473 

Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), battle of, 322 

Faneuil Hall, 129 

Far East, 420 

Farragut, Admiral David G., at New 

Orleans, 317; sketch, 342; at Mobile 

Bay, 342 
Federal Reserve Banks, 443 
Federal Reserve Board, 443, 476 
Federal Reserve System, 442 
Federal Trade Commission, 476 
Federalist Party, 191, 198, 209, 211, 230, 

237. 238 
Fifteenth ^Amendment, 360 
Filibustering Expeditions, 286 
Filipinos, rebellion of, 420 



530 



INDEX 



Fillmore, Millard, sketch, 281; porlniil, 
283 

Fisheries, in colonial days, 61, 106; 
Newfoundland fisheries dispute ar- 
bitrated, 436 

Five Forks, battle of, 346 

Five Nations (see Six Nations), 76 

Flag, American, 164, 488 

Flatboat, 216 

Florida, jiurchase of, 239; admitted to 
the Union, 354 

Flying machine, 480 

Foote, Commodore, 315 

Foreign trade, growth of, 478 

Forest reservations, 381 

Fort Dearborn, 260 

Fort Donclson, 315 

Fort Du Quesne (dii-kan'), 97, 98, 100 

Fort Edward, 158 

Fort Henry, 315 

P'ort le Bceuf, 96 

Fort Lee, 152, 153 

Fort McHenry, 234 

Fort Moultrie (mol'tri), 150 

Fort Necessity, 97 

Fort Niagara, 98 

Fort Orange (Albany), 64 

Fort Stanwix, 159 

Fort Sumter, 305, 306 

Fort Ticonderoga, loi, 129, 145, 157 

Fort Washington, 96 

Fort William Henry, 124 

Fortress Monroe, 321 

Fourteenth Amendment, 360 

France, her struggle with England for 
control of America, 93-103; American 
treaty with, 164; aids the Americans 
with her fleets, 172, 181; at war with 
England, 206; regains Louisiana, 219; 
injures American commerce, 226 

Franco-Prussian War, 431 

Franklin, Benjamin, 98; his plan of 
union, 121; sketch, 121; and the 
Declaration of Independence, 150; 
[ ortrait, 162; in France, 164 

Franklin Plan of Union, 121, 122 



Fredericksburg, battle of, 324 
Freedmen, and Southern legislation, 

358; and education, 370, 371 
French forts, 95 
French Revolution, 207 
French War, Last, 94-103; causes of, 

94; principal events of, 96-102; 

treaty of peace, 102; other results of, 

103 
Fugitive Slave Law, 284 
Fulton, Robert, 223 
Fur trade, 64-66, 91, 113, 114 

Gadsden Purchase, 278 

Gage, General, 140, 142, 143 

Gang-plow, 376 

Garfield, Harrj' A., 465 

Garfield, James A., portrait, 390; 
sketch, 392 

Garrison, William Lloyd, 271, 272 

Gates, General, 163, 175 

Genet (zhe-na). Citizen, defies Wash- 
ington, 208 

George HI., 135-140, 183 

Georgia, early history, 41; secedes, 302 

Georgian Bay, 90 

Germantown, battle of, 192 

German^^ United, 431, 432 

Gettysburg, battle of, 325-329 

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey. 23 

Gold, discovery of, in California, 279, 
280 

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando. 62 

Gosnold, Bartholomew, 26 

Gourgues (gorg), Dominique de, in 
Florida, 16 

Government, colonial, 118-121 

Grant, Ulysses S., at Fort Donelson, 
315; at Shiloh, 315, 316; at Vicks- 
burg, 329, 330; at Chattanooga, 334, 
335; sketch, 335; portrait, 337; in 
campaigns about Richmond, 337-348; 
captures Lee's army, 347, 348; Presi- 
dent, 362; his Indian policy, 384. 385 

Great Meadows, 97 

Great War in Europe, 451-46S 



INDEX 



531 



Greater America, 429 

Greater England, 432 

Greater France, 432 

Greater Germany, 432 

Greater Russia, 432 

Greeley, Horace, 348 

Greenbacks, 390-392 

Greene, General, 1 79-181 

Greenland, 11 

Grenville, Lord, 129 

Griffin, 90 

Griffin's Wharf, 140 

Guam, 417 

Guantanamo, 415 

Guerricre (gar-ryar), captured, 231 

Guilford Court House, battle of, 180 

Gulf of Mexico, 17 

Gunpowder,, i 

Guthrie, 397 

Hague, The, 427, 428, 436 

"Hail Columbia," 210 

Hale, Nathan. 152 

Half Moon, 63 

Halifax, 148 

Hamilton, Alexander, favors a strong 

union, 200; financial policy of, 202; 

portrait, 202; killed by Burr, 223 
Hamilton, Colonel, 169, 170 
Hampton Roads, 312-314 
Hancock, John, 143, 145, 150 
Harper's Ferry, 296 
Harrison, Benjamin, 396; sketch, 402; 

portrait, 402; elected President, 404 
Harrison, William Henry, 228; sketch, 

267; portrait, 268 
Hartford, 51, 54, 60 
Hartford, at Mobile Bay, 43 
Hartford Convention, 236, 237 
Harvard College, 109 
Havana, 411 
Hawaii (ha-wl'e), revolution in, 401, 

402 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 486 
Hay, Secretary, 421 
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 423 



Hayes, Rutherford B., sketch, 365; with- 
draws troops from the South, 365;, 
portrait, 366; election of, 389, 390 

Hayne, Robert Y., 254 

Hayti, 6 

Hennepin, 123 

Henry, Patrick, 131, 141, 191 

Henry VII., 8 

Hessians, 149, 155 

Higher education, 462 

Hobson, Lieutenant, 415 

Holland at war with England, 167 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 486 

Holy Alliance, 240 

Homestead Bill, 374 

Hood, General, 341 

Hooker, Joseph, 325, 335 

Hooker, Thomas, 51-52 

Hoover, Herbert C, 459 

Horseshoe Bend, 235 

House of Representatives, elects Jeffer- 
son as President, 213; impeaches An- 
drew Johnson, 360; in the Constitu- 
tion, 487-492, 507-512 

Howe, General, 146, 152, 160-163, 166 

Howells, W. D., 486 

Hudson, Henry, discovers the Hudson 
River, 63 

Hudson Bay Company, 270 

Hudson River, 63. 64, 67, 150, 157 

Huerta, General, 444-446 

Hughes, Charles E., 449 

Huguenots (hu'ge-nots), in France, 15; 
their settlements, 16; Spanish de- 
stroy settlements of, 16 

Hull, Captain Isaac, 231 

Hull, General William, 232 

Hutchinson, Anne, 55 

Iberville (e-ber-vel'), 123 

Idaho, 375 

Illinois, 353 

Immigration, foreign, table of , 259; 290,. 

291, 372, 373 
Impeachment, President Johnson's, 360 
Imports, 252, 253, 478 



532 



INDEX 



Impressment of American seamen, 208, 
225 

Incandescent light, 480 

Income tax, 442 

Indentured servants, 34 

Independence Hall, 150 

Independence of the United States, 183 

Independent Treasury, 262 

Indian Territorj', 390, 391 

Indiana, 353 

Indians, division of, 75; character of, 
76; occupations of, 77; their canoes 
and snow-shoes, 77; wampum, 78; 
religion, 79; clan and tribe, 80; com- 
munal living, 80; number of, 82; in- 
fluence of, upon the whites, 83; early 
wars with, 84-86; aid Burgoyne, 158; 
use of, by the English, 168; reserva- 
tion system, 386 

Industrial revolution, 472 

Initiative, 440 

Intercolonial Wars, 94-103 

Internal improvements, 246, 247, 261 

Interstate Commerce Act, 475 

Interstate Commerce Commission, 476 

Inv-entions: gunpowder, mariner's com- 
pass, printing-press, i, 2; cotton-gin, 
J04; steamboat, 222; reaping ma- 
chine, 264; friction matches, 264; tel- 
egraph, 267; wireless, 424; cable, 382, 
424; steam plow, 376; telephone, 389; 
sewing machine, 473; spinning ma- 
chine, power loom, 473; Bessemer 
process of making steel, 474; X-ray, 
480; automobile and flying machine, 
480 

Iowa, 354 

Iron, 473-475 

"Ironsides, Old," 231 

Iroquois (ir-6-kwoi') Indians (see Eive 
Nations and Six Nations), 64, 65; and 
Champlain , 88 ; enemies of French , 89 ; 
and fur trade, 93; and St. Leger, 159 

Irrigation, 380, 381 

Irving, Wa.shington, 485 

Isthmian Canal Act, 423 



Italy, trouble with, 398 
Italy, United, 430 

Jackson, Andrew, at battle of New 
Orleans, 235, 236; in Florida, 239; 
240; presidency of, 250-262; sketch, 
250; portrait, 251 

Jackson, C. T., 268 

Jackson, Thomas J. ("Stonewall"), in 
the Shenandoah, 322; sketch, 325; 
and portrait, 327 

James I., 30, 42-44 

James II., 42, 43, 59 

James, Henry, 466 

Jamestown, settlement of, 29 

Japan, treaty with, 285; new treaty 
with, 437 

Japanese immigration, 438 

Jay, his treaty with England, 208 

Jefferson, Thomas, 132; writes Decla- 
ration of Independence, 150; opposes 
a strong union, 200; presidency of, 
213-227; sketch, 213; portrait, 216 

Jesuit missionaries, 90 

Johnson, Andrew, presidency of, 356- 
363; sketch and portrait, 357; his 
plan of reconstruction, 357, 358; im- 
peached, 360 

Johnston, Albert Sidney, 315 

Johnston, Joseph E., 307, 322, 329, 337, 
340, 348 

Joliet (zho-lya'), 90 

Jones, John Paul, 164, 173, 174 

Kalb, John, 165 

Kansas, struggle for, 287-289; admitted 

to the Union, 354 
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 287, 288 
Kaskaskia, 169 

Kcarsargc, sinks the Alabama, 344 
Kenesaw Mountain, battle of, 341 
Kentucky, Resolutions presented by, 

211; life in, 216 
Key, Francis Scott, 234 
King CJeorge's War, 94 
Kini; I'hilii)'s War, 8,s, 86 



INDEX 



533- 



King William's War, 94 
King's Mountain, battle of, 176 
Knickerbocker History of New York, 465 
Knights of Labor, 395 
Knox, Henry, 200 
Kosciusko (kos-i-us'ko), 165 
Ku-Klux Klan, 361, 362 



Labor, in Virginia, 34, 35; in the North 
and South, 292, 293; railroad strikes, 
387, 388; Knights of Labor, 395 

La Fayette (la-fa-yet'), portrait, 160; 
sketch, 162; in Virginia, 181 

Lake Erie, Perry's victory on, 232, 233 

Lands: railroad and Western, 258; 
speculation in Western, 260, 261; 
public lands and Western expansion, 
373-375; arid region and irrigation, 
380; forest reservations, 381 

La Salle (la-sal'), explores the Missis- 
sippi, 90; his aims and work, 91, 92 

Las Guasimas, 415 

Latin-American states, 446 

Lawrence, Perry's flagship, 232, 233 

Leatherstocking Tales, 485 

Lee, Charles, 153, 154, 160, 165, 166 

Lee, Richard Henry, 149 

Lee, Robert E., sketch, 322; in Penin- 
sular campaign, 322; portrait, 324; 
at Antietam, 324; at Fredericksburg, 
324; at Chancellorsville, 325; at 
Gettysburg, 325-329; in campaigns 
of 1864 and 1865, 337-347; his surren- 
der, 347 

Leisler (lis'ler), Jacob, leads an uprising 
against Andros, 69 

Lewis and Clark's Expedition, 221, 222 

Lexington, battle of, 142-145 

Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's, 
271, 272 

Liberty Loans, 462, 463 

Lincoln, Abraham, sketch, 299, 300; 
portrait, 300; presidency of, 305-348; 
assassinated, 348 

Lincoln, General, 175 



"Line of Demarcation," 6 

Linotype, 484 

Literature, 485, 486 

London Company, 28, 29 

Long Island, battle of, 151, 152 

Longfellow, Henry W., 486 

Lookout Mountain, battle of, 335 

Louis XIV., 91 

Louisburg, 94 

Louisiana, 353 

Louisiana Purchase, 220, 221 

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 425 

Lovejoy, Elijah P., 273 

Lowell, James Russell, 486 

Loyalists, 134, 151 

Lumber trade, 61 

Lundy's Lane, battle of, 233 

Lusitania, 453 



McAdoo, William G., 465 

McClellan, George B., in the Penin- 
sular campaign, 319-323; at Antie- 
tam, 324 

McCormick's reaping-machine, 264, 375 

McCrea, Jane, 158 

McDonough (mak-don'o), Thomas, on 
Lake Champlain, 234 

McDowell, General, 307, 321 

McKinley, William, author of McKin- 
ley Bill, 404; portrait, 404; sketch, 
408; conduct of Spanish War, 411; 
assassination of, 418 

Madero, 444 

Madison, James, portrait, 228; sketch, 
228; presidency of, 228-238 

Magellan (ma-jel'an), wonderful voyage 
of, 9 

Mails, 198 

Maine, 244 

Maine, 411 

Malolos, 420 

Malvern Hill, battle of, 322 

Manassas (ma-nas'as), battle of {see 
Bull Run) 

Manhattan Island, 64 



554 



INDEX 



Manila, 412, 413, 420 
Manufactures, in New England, 61, 
227; in the North, 252; in the South, 

253, 367. 368 
Marion, Francis, 176 
Marquette (mar-ket'), Father, 90 
Marshall, Chief Justice, 212 
Maryland, early history of, 37-40; and 

the Northwest Territory, 188 
Mason, John, 84 
Mason and Dixon's Line, 39 
Mason and Slidell seized on the Trent, 

309 
Massachusetts Bay Company, 47, 48 
Massachusetts, early history of, 44-59 
Massasoit (mas-a-soit'), 47 
Maximilian, Archduke, in Mexico, 345 
Mayflower, Pilgrim vessel, 45 
Mayo, Admiral, 445, 446 
Meade, George G., portrait, 329; at 

Gettysburg, 325-329 
Mediation, 446 
Menendez in Florida, 16 
Mcrrimac, Confederate ironclad, 311- 

314 

Merrhuac, United States collier, 415 

Merrimac River, 47 

Merritt, General, 413 

Mexican War, 274-277 

Mexico, Cortez conquers, 18; secures in- 
dependence, 240; troubles with Texas, 
274; at war with United States, 275- 
277; Maximilian in, 345; troubles in, 

444-447 

Michigan, 354 

Middle Colonies, 11 3-1 16; mixed pop- 
ulation of, 113; occupations of people 
in, 113; education in, 114; crimes and 
punishments in, 115; life and man- 
ners of the Dutch in, 115 

Miles, General, 420 

Mills Bill, 404 

Mimms, Fort, massacre at, 235 

Mining, 279, 280, 472 

Minnesota, 354 

Minutcmcn, 143 



Mission stations, 90 

Mission to Russia, 463 

Missionary Ridge, battle of, 336 

Mississippi, 353 

^Mississippi River, discovered by De 

Soto, 15; explored by French, 89-92; 

flatboats on, 217; navigation, 220; in 

War of 1812, 235; importance of, in 

Civil War, 314-318; jetties, 366 
Mississippi Valley, French in, 89-92; 

settlement of, 213-222 
Missouri, 244 

Missouri Compromise, 244, 245 
Mobile Bay, battle of, 342, 343 
Mohawk River, 89, 157 
Money, during Revolution, 167, 168; 

Shays's Rebellion, 187; Jackson and 

United States bank, 256; wild-cat 

banking, 260; in Civil War, 390, 391; 

resumption of specie payment, 390; 

silver legislation, 403 
Monitor, Union ironclad, 311-314 
Monmouth, battle of, 166 
Monroe Doctrine, 240, 241, 405, 406 
Monroe, James, presidency of, 239-245; 

sketch, 240; portrait, 241 
Montana, 375 
Montcalm, General, 99, 102 
Montgomery, 145 
Monticello, 213 
Montreal, 145 

Moore's Creek Bridge, battle of, 192 
IVIorgan, Daniel, at battle of Cowpens, 

179, 180 
Mormons, 376, 377 
Morris, Robert, 156 
Morristown, 156, 160 
Morse, Samuel F. B., and the telegraph, 

267, 268 
Morton, W. T. G., 268 
Motley, John Lothrop, 486 
Mound Builders, 81, 82 
Mount Vernon, home of Washington, 

196 
Municipal reform, 461 
^lurfreesboro, battle of, 324 



INDEX 



535 



Napoleon I., 218-220, 229 

Napoleon III., and the Confederate 

navy, 344; and Mexico, 345 
Narragansett Indians, 47, 55 
Narvaez (nar-va-ath') explores Florida, 

19 

Nashville, battle of, 355 

National Council of Defense, 458, 459 

National Republican Party, 248 

National road, 241, 242 

Natural resources, 433, 435 

Navigation Laws, 36, 59, 126 

Navj% United States, in the Revolution, 
172; in War of 181 2, 230; our new, 
399, 400; increase of, 460, 466, 467 

Nebraska, 288 

Negro suffrage, 360 

Negroes, in Union army, 332; freedmen 
in reconstruction days, 358-363; 
progress, 370, 371. See also Slavery 

Nevada, 355 

New England, industries and trade of, 
61; occupations of the people in, 106; 
religion and church worship in, 106; 
education in, 109; crimes and punish- 
ments in, 109; life and manners in, 
109, no; and protection, 254 

New England Confederacy, 55, 56 

New France, the founding of, 87-92; in 
the Intercolonial Wars, 93-102; giv-en 
up to England, 102. See also Canada 

New Hampshire, early history of, 62 

New Haven colony, 52 

New Jersey, early history of, 73 

New Mexico, 438 

New Netherland, early history of, 64- 
68; becomes New York, 68 

New Orleans, battle of, 235, 236; cap- 
ture of, 316, 317; Cotton Centennial, 
368, 369 

New Sweden, 74 

New York, under English governors, 
68, 69; and the Northwest Territory, 
188 

New York City, 246 

Ne^/ Zealand, 432 



Newfoundland, fisheries dispute, arbi- 
tration of, 436 

Newspapers, 117, 263, 484 

Niagara Falls, 446 

Nina, ship of Columbus, 4 

Non-Importation agreements, 133, 139 

Non-Intercourse Act, 227 

Norfolk Navy Yard, 311 

North, economic conditions in, 293; ad- 
vantages of, 303 

North America, mainland discovered, 8; 
claimed by England, 8 

North Carolina, early history of, 41; 
secedes, 306 

North Dakota, 375 

North German Confederation, 431 

North Sea, 452 

Northern point of view, 301 

Northmen, 11 

Northwest Boundary, 269 

Northwest Passage, 8 

Northwest Territory, conflicting claims 
to, 188 

Nova Scotia, 8, 11, 99 

Nullification, 211, 253-256 

Ocean Steamships, 264 

Oglethorpe (o'gl-thorp), James, 41 

Ohio Company, 96 

Ohio River, Fort Du Quesne on, 97; 
flatboats on, 217; value to Western- 
ers, 2 16, 2 17; part of boundary lines, 242 

Oklahoma (ok-la-ho'ma), territory 
opened to settlement, 396 

Old North Church, 143 

Old South Church, 130, 139 

Olney, Richard, 407 

"Open Door," 420 

"Orders in Council," 226 

Ordinance of 1787, 188, 189 

Oregon, 354 

Oregon, 414 

Oregoa Country, 269-271 

Ostend (os-tend') ]\Ianifesto, 286, 287 

Oswego, 159 

Otis, James, 128 



536 



INDEX 



Pacific Cable, 424 

Pacific Ocean, discovery of, 18 

Pacific railroads, 378-380 

Pack-horse, 217 

Paine, Tlios., writes Common Sense, 149 

Pakenham (pak'cn-am) , Sir Edward, 236 

Palo Alto (pi'lo al'to), battle of, 354 

Palos, 4 

Panama, Isthmus of, 18 

Panama, revolution, 423; treaty, 424 

Panama Canal, 423, 443, 450, 451 

Panama tolls, 443 

Pan-American Congress, 397 

Pan-American Exposition, 419 

Pan-American Union, 451 

Panic, financial, of '37, 262; of '57, 294; 
of '73, 386, 387; of '93, 403 

Paper money, i68, 187, 390, 391 

Parcel post, 441 

Parkman, Francis, 486 

Parliament, English, 126, 127, 134, 135, 
136, 139, 186; Acts of, 186; Sugar 
Act, 127, 136; Stamp Act, 128-133, 
149; Townshend Acts, 136-138; Bos- 
ton Port Bill, 140, 149, 164; Massa- 
chusetts Act, 140 

Parties, Federalist, 191, 247; Anti-Fed- 
eralist, 191; Republican, 209, 299; 
Democratic-Republican, 209; Demo- 
cratic, 209, 299; National Repub- 
lican, 247, 248; Whig, 290; Free Soil, 
290; Progressive, 439 

Partisan warfare in the South, 1 76 

Patroons in New Netherland, 64, 65 

Payne-Aldrich Bill, 435, 436 

Peabody, George, 370 

Peace Conference, first, 427, 428; sec- 
ond, 427 

Peace movement, 427-429 

Peking, 421 

Pemberton, General, 329, 330 

Penn, William, proprietor of Pennsyl- 
vania, 70-72; portrait, 70 

Pennsylvania, early history of, 70-72 

Pennsylvania, University of, 115 

Pensacola, 240 



Pension Bill, 397 

Pepperell, Colonel, 94 

Pequot Indians, 84 

Periodicals, 464 

Perry, Commodore, in Japan, 285, 286 

Perry, Oliver H., his victory on Lake 
Erie, 232, 233 

Pershing, General, 446, 461, 464 

Personal Liberty Bills, 284, 285 

"Pet Banks," 257 

Petersburg, explosion of mine at, 338 

Petition, right of, 273 

Philadelphia, 71 

Philippine Islands, 417, 420 

Pickett, General, 328, 329 

Pierce, Franklin, portrait, 286; sketch, 
286; presidency of, 287-294 

Pilgrims, go to Holland, 44; aims and 
character of, 45; voyage to America, 
45; settle at Plymouth, 46; covenant 
and democracy, 46; relations with the 
Indians, 46, 47 

Pinckney, Charles C, 210 

Pinta, ship of Columbus, 4 

Pitt, William, 100, 133 

Pittsburg Landing, battle of, 315, 316 

Pizarro (pi-zii'ro), conquers Peru, 19 

Plains of Abraham, 102 

Plantation system in early colonial 
days, 35, 39; in later times, 253, 29J 

Plymouth colony, 46, 56 

Plymouth Company, 28 

Pocahontas, 31 

Poe, Edgar Allan, 486 

Polk, James K., sketch and portrait, 
27s; presidency of, 275-281 

Ponce de Leon (pon'tha da la-6n'), dis- 
covers Florida, 13, 14 

Pontiac, his conspiracy, 103 

Pope, General, 323 

Population, in 1790, 195; table of, 372 

Port Bill, Boston, 140 

Port Hudson, surrender 6f, 330 

Porto Rico, 417, 418 

Portugal leads in discovering an eastern 
route, 2 



INDEX 



537 



Postal savings banks, 436 

Postal service, 117, 198 

Potomac, Army of, 319 

Power loom, 473 

Powhatan (pow-ha-tan'), 31 

Prescott, Colonel, 146 

Prescott, William H., 486 

Presidency, change in form of election, 
213; the joint high commission, 389, 
390; Presidential Succession Act, 394, 
395; in the Constitution, 512, 513 

Primaries, 439 

Princeton, battle of, 156 

Princeton College, 115 

Printing-press, 484 

Prisoners, difficulties about exchange of, 
in Civil War, 332 

Privateering, in Revolution, 172; in 
War of 181 2, 232 

Problems of the hour, 487 

Progressive Party, 439 

Prohibition, 450 

Proprietary colonies, 38, 41, 62, 70, 
I 18-120 

Protective Tariff, 203, 252-254, 404, 
405. 407, 408, 418, 423, 425, 435, 439 

Providence, R. I., 55 

Provincial Congress, 142 

Prussia, 430, 431 

Public debt, 260, 261 

Public land, 259, 260, 373-375 

Public schools, 263, 482 

Pullman boycott, 405 

Puritans, 47-59; obtain a charter, 47; 
settlements, 48; government, 49; re- 
ligious intolerance, 54-58; persecute 
the Quakers, 56, 57; have trouble with 
England, 58, 59 

Putman, Israel, 103, 146 

Quakers, 56, 57, 69, 70 

Quebec, capture of, by Wolfe, loi, 102 

Queen Anne's War, 94 

Railroads, 257, 258, 367, 378-380 
Railroad rate regulation, 448 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, portrait, 21 ; sketch, 

22; colonies, 22-25 
Rapidan River, 337 
Recall, 440 
Reconstruction, Johnson's plan of, 357, 

358; congressional plan of, 358, 359; 

work of, complete, 359; difficulties 

and results of, 363 
Red Cross, 463 
Referendum, 440 
Religion, motive for colonization, 37, 

44; Puritan intolerance, 49, 54, 55- 

57. See also Catholics. 
Religious intolerance among the Massa- 
chusetts Puritans, 54-59 
Representative assemblies, ;^^, 38, 39, 

49, 50, 118-120, 131, 134 
Republican Party, 290, 299, 404, 407, 

418 
Reservations, Indian, 386 
Resumption of specie payments, 390- 

392 
Revere, Paul, 143 

Review of the army at Washington, 355 
Revolution, American, causes of, 126- 

141; principal events of, 142-183; re- 
sults of, 183 
Rhode Island, settled, 54, 55; religious 

toleration in, 55 
Rice, cultivation of, 41 
Richmond, Va., Confederate capital, 

302; evacuated by Lee, 346 
Right of search claimed by England, 225 
Rio Grande River, 275 
Rivers, twofold use of, 217 
Roanoke Island, 23-25 
Rochambeau, 182 

Rolfe, John, marries Pocahontas, 31 
Roosevelt, Theodore, portrait, 417; 

sketch, 419; 424, 425, 426, 439 
Root, Elihu, 463 
Rosecrans (roze-cranz). General, ;i^^, 

334 
Ross, General, 234 
"Rotten boroughs," 134 
Rough Riders, 415 



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INDEX 



Roxbury, settled, 48 

Royal colonics, 41, 62, 74, 119 

Russia. 432 

Sacramento River, 279 

St. Augustine, 16 

St. Lawrence River, 87 

St. Leger (sant Icj'cr), in western New 
York, 159 

St. Mary's, settlement at, 38 

Salem witchcraft, ic8 

Sampson, Admiral. 415, 418 

San Francisco, 280 

San Juan Hill, 416 

San Salvador, 6 

Sanitary Commission, 350 

Santa Maria, ship of Columbus, 4 

Santiago, battle of, 416 

Savannah, Sherman captures, 341 

Savannah, 264 

Say-and-Sele, Lord, 52 

Saybrook, 54 

"Scalawags," 361 

Schley, Commodore, 411, 414 

Schuyler, General, 158, 163 

Schuylkill River, 165 

Schwab, Charles I\L, 467 

Scott, General, 2t,t, 

Scrooby, England, 44 

Seal fisheries, 400, 401 

Secession, of South Carolina, 300; doc- 
trine of, 301 ; of the remaining Cotton 
States, 302; of Virginia, North Caro- 
lina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 306 

Seminole Indians, 239, 240, 385 

Semmcs (semz). Captain, 344 

Senators, United States, elected by the 
people, 441 

Separatists in England, 44 

Serapis, 173 

Seven Days' battles, 322 

Seven Pines, battle of. See Fair Oaks 

Seven Weeks' War, 431 

Seven Years' War, 94 

Seventeenth Amendment, 441 

Sewing machine, 473 



Shafter, General, 416 

Shays's Rebellion, 187, 188 

Shenandoah \'alley, Jackson in. 322; 
Early in, 338; Sheridan in, 339 

Sheridan, Philip H., in the Shenan- 
doah, 339; portrait, 339; at Cedar 
Creek, 339; sketch, 339; at Five 
Forks, 346 

Sherman Act, 403, 478 

Sherman, James S., 435 

Sherman, Roger, 150 

Sherman, William T., sketch, 340; por- 
trait, 341; captures .\tlanta, 341; his 
"March to the Sea," 341; captures 
Johnston's army, 348 

Shiloh, battle of, 315, 316 

Shipbuilding, in the colonies. 61, 106 

Short ballot, 439, 440 

Silver, Spanish search for, 19; silver leg- 
islation, 403 

Sims, Admiral, 461 

Six Nations. Sec Five Nations and 
Iroquois Indians 

Sixteenth Amendment, 442 

Slater, John F., 370 

Slater, Samuel, 473 

Slavery, in Virginia, 34, 35; cotton-gin 
and, 204, 205; in the North and the 
South, 243; and the Civil War, 301 

Slidell, .seized on the Trent, 309 

Smith, Captain John, his services to the 
Virginia colonists, 30; sketch, 31 ; por- 
trait, 31; returns to England, 31 

Smith, Joseph, 377 

Smuggling, 127, 128 

Solid South, 365 

Sons of Liberty, 131 

South, economic conditions in, 292, 293; 
adv-antages of, 303; seizes national 
property, 304; condition at the close 
of the Civil War, 356; the new, 365- 
371; troops withdrawn from, 365 

South America, discovered and ex- 
plored, 8-10, 18, 19; colonies in re- 
volt from Spain, 240; and the United 
States, 397. 4.46 



INDEX 



539 



Soutu Carolina, 41; objects to Protec- 
tion, 252, 253; and State Rights, 255, 
256; secedes, 300 

South Dakota, 375 

South Sea. See Pacific Ocean 

Southern Colonies, 111-113; occupa- 
tions of the people of, in; education 
in, in; life and manners in, 112 

Southern point of view, 300 

Spain claims Florida, 16; advantages 
of, in the New World, 16, 17; reasons 
for failure, 17; relations with England, 
20, 21; rise of Cubans against, 410 

Spaniards, precious metals main object 
of, 13; and the Indians, 15; destroy 
Huguenot settlements, 16 

Spanish-American War, 410-417 

Specie Circular, 261 

Specie payments, 390, 391 

Speedwell, 45 

"Spheres of Influence," 431 

Spinning machine, 473 

Spoils system, 251 

Spottsylvania Court House, battle o , 

337 

Stage coaches, 117, 197 

Stamp Act, 1 28-131; Stamp Act Con- 
gress, 132; repeal of, 133 

Standard Oil Company, 477 

Standish, Myles, portrait, 48 

Stanton, Secretary, 349 

Star of the West, 305 

Star-Spangled Banner, 234 

Stark, John, 159 

State Rights, 254-256, 300, 301 

Statue of Liberty, 396 

Steamboat, Fulton's first, 222; launched 
on the Ohio River, 223 

Steel, 473-475 

Stephens, Alexander H., sketch, 303 

Steuben, Baron, 165 

"Stonewall" Jackson. See Jackson, 
Thomas J. 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 285 

Straits of Magellan, 9 

Strikes, railroad, 387, 388, 405 



Stuyvesant (sti've-sant). Governor, 68 

Submarine, 452, 453, 454, 456, 461 

Suffrage, for negroes, 359-361 

Suffrage, for women, 483, 484 

Sugar and Molasses Act, 127 

Sugar Trust, 477 

Sullivan, General, 152 

Sumner, Charles, assault on, 289, 290 

Supreme Court, 200, 295, 513, 514 

Surplus, 404 

Sutter, Captain, 279 

Swedes, settlement made by, 74 



Taft, William H., sketch of, 435; por- 
trait of, 43 5 ; and revision of the 
tariff, 435; and arbitration, 436, 437 

Tampico, 445 

Tariff, 203, 252-256, 404, 405, 407, 408, 
418, 423, 425, 439, 442 

Tariff Commission, 436 

Tarleton, 179 

Taxation, 39, 43, 130; without repre- 
sentation in America, 134; without 
representation in England, 134 

Taylor, Zachary, 276; portrait, 280; 
sketch, 281 

Tea, tax on, 139, 140 

Tecumseh (te-kums'e), 228 

Telegraph, 267, 268, 379, 424 

Telephone, 389 

Temperance movement, 264, 265, 450 

Tennessee, life in, 216 

Tennessee, Confederate ironclad, 342 

Tennessee River, 315 

Tenure of Office Act, 360 

Territories, slavery in, 287, 288, 295, 
299 

Texas, annexation of, 274; admitted to 
the Union, 354 

Textile industry, 472, 473 

Thames River, battle of, 233 

Thanatopsis, 486 

Thanksgiving Day, no 

Thirteenth Amendment, 358, 360 

Thomas, General, 333, 336 



540 



INDEX 



Tildcn, Samuel J., 389 

Tippecanoe, battle of, 228 

Tobacco, 33-35, 40 

Tories. See Loyalists 

Towmship, New England, 4^ 49 

Trade, Colonial, 126-128 

Trade Schools, 463 

Travel, modes of, 117, 197, 215, 217, 

223, 241, 242, 257 
Treaty at close of Last French War, 102 ; 

at close of Revolution, 183; Jay's 

208; at close of War of 181 2, 238; 

with Mexico, 277; Hay-Pauncefote, 

423; with Japan, 437, 438 
Trent Affair, 309 
Trenton, battle of, 154, 155 
Trolley-cars, 480 
Trusts, 476-478 
Tuscaroras (tus-ka-ro'riis), 76 
Tyler. John, sketch, 267, 268; portrait, 

269 

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 285 

Underground Railroad, 285 

Union, steps toward: New England Con- 
federation, 55, 56; Franklin's Plan of 
Union, 121, 122; Stamp Act Congress, 
132; Committees of Correspondence, 
138; first meeting of the Continental 
Congress, 141; second meeting of the 
Continental Congress, 145; Declara- 
tion of Independence, 148-150; Arti- 
cles of Confederation, 185-189; Con- 
stitutional Convention, 189, 190; re- 
sults of Civil War, 351, 352; results 
of Spanish-American War, 417 

United States, a world-power, 429, 430 

United States, natural advantages of, 
471,472 

United States Bank, 256, 257 

United States Bureau of Agriculture, 

483 
United States Steel Company, 477 
Universities,. 48 2 
University of Pennsylvania, 115 
Utah, 375 



Valley Forge, suffering at, 164, 165 
Van Buren, Martin, sketch and portrait, 

262; presidency of 262, 263 
Venezuela (ven-e-zwe-la') and luigland, 

405-407 
V^era Cruz (ve'ra. kroz), 354, 446 
Vermont, 352 

Verrazano (ver'rat-sii'no), 87 
\'espucius, Americus, 8 
Vicksburg, capture of, 32^ 330 
Victor Emmanuel, 430 
Vincennes, 169 
Vinland, Northmen visit, 1 1 
V'irginia, early history of, 29-37; and 

the Northwest Territory, 188 
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 211 
Vocational schools, 449, 483 
Vulture, 178 



Wabash Ri\-er, 89 

Wallace, Lew, 338 

Waltham, 473 

Wampanoag Indians, 47 

Wampum, 78 

War of 181 2, causes of, 229, 230; princi- 
pal events of, 231-236; results of, 238 

Wars: Indian, 84-86; Intercolonial, 94; 
Last French, 94-103; Pontiac's, 103; 
Revolution, 126-183; Barbary States, 
222; Tecumseh's conspiracy, 228; of 
1812, 229-238; Creek, 235; Mexican, 
275-277; Civil, 301-352; Spanish- 
American, 410-417 

War zone, 452, 453 

Warren, Joseph, 143, 146, 147 

Washington, D. C, made the national 
capital, 203; captured by the British, 

234 

Washington ¥Am, 144 

Washington, George, his journey to the 
French forts, 96; at Great Meadows, 
97; with Braddock, 99; takes com- 
mand of the American army, 147; in 
the Revolution, 147-183; presidency 
of, 194-209; sketch, 195; inaugu- 



INDEX 



541 



rated, 195; formality of, 198-200; his 
cabinet, 200 

Washington, Lawrence, 96 

Webster, Daniel, and the Union, 254; 
portrait, 255 

Wells, Horace, 268 

West, rapid growth of, 259; influence 
of, in favor of nationalism, 293; ex- 
pansion of, 374-376 

West Point, 177, 178 

W^est Virginia admitted to the Union, 

307 
Western lands, speculation in, 260 
Western migration, 213-224 
Wethersfield settled, 51 
Weyler, General, 411 
Whig Party, 290 
Whiskey Rebellion, 203, 204 
WTiite Plains, battle of, 192 
Whitney, Eli, invents cotton-gin, 204, 

205 
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 486 
W'ild-cat banlcing, 260 
Wilderness, battles of, 337 
Wilkes, Captain, 309 
Williams, Roger, 54, 55 
Williamsburg, 131 
Williamsburg, battle of, 321 



Wilmot, David, 278 

Wilmot Proviso, 278 

Wilson Bill, 405 

Wilson, Woodrow, sketch, 438; por- 
trait, 438; and the troubles in Mex- 
ico, 445, 446, 447; and the railway 
disputes, 448; re-election, 448; ad- 
dress to Congress, 454-457 

Windsor settled, 51 

Winthrop, John, 51 

Wireless telegraphy, 424 

Wisconsin, 354 

Witchcraft, Salem, 108 

Wolfe, General, captures Quebec, joi, 
102 

Woman suffrage, 483, 484 

World-powers of Europe, 430 

World's Columbian Exposition, 402 

Wright Brothers, 481 

Writs of Assistance, 128 

Wyoming, 484 

X-Ray, 4S0 

"X Y Z Papers," 209, 210 

Yale College, 109 
Yorktown, McClellan at, 321 
Young, Brighara, 377 



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